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- Mika Ronkainen is an award-winning film director and screenwriter from northern Finland. Ronkainen's latest work, a psychological crime drama series All the Sins (2019) has been highly successful both in his native country and around the world. Originally commissioned by Elisa Viihde, the series has been shown worldwide in several territories, including HBO, Sky Showtime and Channel 4.
In 2013, Variety magazine selected Ronkainen as one of the ten up-and-coming European directors to watch.
Ronkainen started directing documentary films at the age of 26. His latest documentary, Finnish Blood Swedish Heart (2012), was awarded with two Finnish Oscars (Jussi Awards) for Best Documentary Film and Best Music in a Film. After having created internationally successful documentary films Finnish Blood Swedish Heart (2012), Freetime Machos (2009) and Huutajat - Screaming Men (2003), which screened at several international film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, IDFA, and Karlovy Vary, Ronkainen ventured into the world of scripted drama with All the Sins (2019).- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- Ronkainen used to be a member of the screaming men's choir in the mid 1990's before he made the documentary Huutajat - Screaming Men (2003) about the choir and the conductor Petri Sirviö.
- Ronkainen is one of the founders of Air Guitar World Championships which has been organized annually in his hometown Oulu, Finland, since 1996.
- I come from a tiny village, but back in the day you could see films on a big screen in the countryside. So I went to see a lot of films as a child. I remember seeing "Jaws 2" when I was eight and I couldn't swim for a couple of years.
- I think I make documentaries the same way as Mike Leigh does fiction films. The only difference is that we don't rehearse and we have only one take.
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