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  • Dance Out Of Line, October 2020

    In the Erasmus+ project Dance Out Of Line a professional dancer and a person with a disability make a joint dance together. This dance is performed in Finnish schools for children of the ages 9-12. We, the dancers, Vea Vainio and Janna Thorström also run workshops for the kids and speak to them about equality…

  • Insta heaven or hell?, September 2018

    Finland has seen Idols winners and Voice of Finland winners crowned only to disappear quietly into some void never to be heard of again. Tika Sevón Liljegren, who won the song competition XFactor in Finland this year, has an amazing voice and great stage presence. In other words she’s got the prerequisites for creating a…

  • First filming of the Tika series, June 2018

    This spring Tika Sevón Liljegren won the song competition XFactor Finland. Tika has an amazing voice and a great stage presence, i.e. the prerequisites for creating a career in music are there – yet Finland has seen Idols and Voice of Finland winners crowned only to disappear rapidly from the limelight. What happens behind the scenes…

  • Burlesque Premiere, April 2018

    TV premiere for Burlesque with Lady Laverna on Monday the 30.4 at 20.30 on Yle Teema, a channel of the Finnish Broadcasting Company! We will hopefully soon have subtitles in English for this program. We live in a society in which young women often find it hard to feel at ease in their bodies. If one…

  • The Man in the Making airs on Finnish TV, April 2018

    It is finally time for the TV premiere of our three part TV series The Man in the Making! The films can be viewed abroad at Yle Arenan. Hopefully in time we will also have English subtitles for you that do not understand Swedish or Finnish! The women’s liberation movement has since the 1970’s worked to…

  • Cut Cut Cut, November 2017

    During the darkest time of year we sit and go through all the hours upon hours of footage for our series about the male role. Post-its of many colors representing snippets of interview change places and slowly but surely a structure starts to form. We have thoroughly interviewed 8 men from the ages of 26-82 and…

  • Emma and Ville filming in Stockholm, September 2017

    As soon as we signed the contract for a third part to our TV series The Man in the Making, Emma and Ville travel to Stockholm to film some more. The theme for part three is career and power and our two new men for the series are Berndt Arell and Pata Degerman. Our TV…

  • Filming Burlesque, August 2017

    Shooting for the Burlesque documentary was supposed to start in spring, but documentaries are portraits of life and life happens, so here we are, commencing in August. The first day we film at Lidia Bäck´s house and on the second at Studio Shangri La, where Lidia practices her numbers and facilitates her work shops. We…

  • Snickers and Interviews, June 2017

    One fine, warm day in June we sit down on Janna´s bed with lap tops on our laps. The curtains are drawn and only a meager slit of sun may enter. Here starts the viewing odyssey; we have hours on end of great footage for our documentary series about the male role. It’s great. But…

  • Filming for the TV series about the male role, May 2017

    It’s still snowing at the beginning of May, but just as we are about to start shooting outdoors for Man in the Making the weather finally shifts. Trees start turning green and we can ditch our winter coats. Graphic designer Rikard Lassenius and cinematographer Ville Tanttu take on a whole day of studio shooting during which they…