Staff

E-mails: firstname.lastname@illume.fi

Pertti Veijalainen

Pertti Veijalainen has studied film theory and history, philosophy, communications, sosiology and literature in Universities of Stockholm and Helsinki. He graduated from the Film Department, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki in 1984. He has worked as a cinematographer in both film and video, but nowadays he has concentrated on producing. He is also a graduate of the international Media EAVE program and works as Managing Director of Illume Ltd.

Jouko Aaltonen

Jouko Aaltonen (born 1956) has directed numerous documentaries with subjects ranging from the Siberian taiga to the diplomatic circles of New Delhi. In 2006 he released the feature length documentary Revolution that garnered record-breaking audiences and the Finnish Jussi award for best documentary. He is also a popular lecturer and an author of study books on cinema. He graduated from the Film Department, University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki in 1984. In 2006 he achieved his Doctor of Arts degree, successfully defending his doctoral thesis on Finnish documentaries. His latest films include: Punksters & Youngsters (2008), Four Lives on Seven Seas (2007), Revolution (2006), Life Saver (2005), Ambassadors (2004).

Venla Hellstedt

Venla Hellstedt studied literature and film in London and gained an MSc in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has worked in a number of documentary productions for BBC, Discovery Channel and YLE, and as a TV and Web news journalist at the BBC, NBC and ITV. Hellstedt returned to work in her native Helsinki in 2009, after nearly 14 years in the UK. She has joined in 2011 / 2012: Sources 2, Crossing Borders, Interdoc Plus and EAVE -workshops for documentary producers.

Maarit Mononen

Maarit Mononen (born 1981) has graduated as a bachelor of Media from North Karelia University of Applied Sciences. Before that she also has graduated as a forestry engineer, specialized in marketing.