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Pari seksifantasiaa (Some Sex Fantasies) from Hannaleena Hauru on Vimeo.

Director: Hannaleena Hauru
Animations: Ilja Rautsi
Cinematography: Sini Järnström, Hannaleena Hauru, Tuulia Kallio
Performers: Tuulia Kallio, Sini Järnström, Johanna Kinnari, Mara Jelinko, Eeva Putro, Jussi Lankoski, Ilja Rautsi, Katarina Matiasovska, Pietari Kylmälä, Mirkka Maikola, Joonas Lepistö, Samuli Salonen, Vilja Autiokyrö
Sound design: Hannaleena Hauru
Music: This Heat " Music Like Escaping Gas"
Producer: Hannaleena Hauru / Kino Euphoria 2012

I was also the producer of the whole Kino Euphoria film event in Helsinki, that’s part of the International Kino Movement. It’s a movement created as a means of providing both amateur and professional filmmakers with a place to create and screen their short-films.

The first film “Once a slut, always a slut” is made with the format of a making of. I’m a director confessing that my main interest in filmmaking is to hook up with men. This was the first time when I forced myself to the other side of the camera. Thanks to an awesome team, the film ended up to be quite funny.

Written and Directed by Hannaleena Hauru
Cinematography Sissi Korhonen & Sini Järnström
Sound recordist Christian Haas
Dramaturgical advisory Ilja Rautsi
Assistant editor Ioana Tarchila

Actors:

Director Hannaleena Hauru
Actor Thomas Lesourd
Actress Marion Casabianca
Former collague Synes Elischka
Former actor Matthias Lindenthal
Props Selina Baumgartel
DOP Sini Järnström
Making of artist Sissi Korhonen

The project grew to be a trilogy as I realized that the format of mocumentary has the potential to be both funny and very realistic. Also I wanted to try out the extreme possibilities of building a realistic feeling by using the method of  documentary inside a mockumentary. The second part “Sacrificed for a passion” was made during our train travel from Tallinn to Istanbul. The method of building the script as the camera circled from hand to hand was a great way to build a film. Special thanks goes to Jerker and Greg, who really put themselves on the line while making this one.

Director: Hannaleena Hauru

Script: Hannaleena Hauru, Grzegorz Brzozowski, Jerker Beckman

with:
Hannaleena Hauru
Grzegorz Brzozowski
Jerker Beckman

Ando Naulainen
Aleksandra Marchenko
Nicolas Servide
Hetta Huhtamäki

Cinematography:
Jerker Beckman
Vincent Bitaud
Marius Apopei
Antoine Cattin

Also included:
Vincent Bitaud
Catalin Musat
Luca Lucchesi
Lucille Caballero
Liso Cassano
Julia Széphelyi-Frankl
Mara Trifu
Vappu Tuomisto
Bas Voorwinde
Vefik Karaege

Thanks to:
Maximilien Van Aertryck
Anu Kaaja

After making these two films a horrible alter ego of mine had been born. And as they say, you either gotta kill your alter ego or tranform into her totally. In the closure of the trilogy I took the last step to the “real feel”, with some of my closest friends being part of the film. “Back to the lover” was made to close the trilogy and also to have a some sort of time capsule about the mixed up period in my life in Helsinki and outside of it.

Director: Hannaleena Hauru

Crew: Hannaleena Hauru, Ilja Rautsi, Synes Elischka, Ville-Veikko Kerimaa, Lasse Poser, Ossi Koskelainen, Tanja Heinänen, Anu Kaaja, Jarno Elonen

And oh yes, like any great consept :), the slut trilogy has a spin-of as well. Hetta Huhtamäki made “Self sacrificing for an ideal” as a spin of to the second part of my trilogy of annoying usage of power to fulfil one’s desires…

The spin of:

Director: Hetta Huhtamäki

Cinematography: Begüm Güleç
Actors: Hetta Huhtamäki, Nick Shaw, Nicolas Servide, Hannaleena Hauru
Editor: Hannaleena Hauru

Short film (10 minutes) shot in Summer 2009 in Finland – examining the borderline between platonic and romantic love through two linking time levels. Shot on S16mm with the support of the Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK and YLE. Premiered in Berlinale 2010 (Generation 14+).

Script:Hannaleena Hauru
Director:Hannaleena Hauru
Cinematography: Jan-Niclas Jansson
Set design: Jukka Nieminen
Sound: Jussi Honka
Music:Lauri Wuolio
Editing : Markus Leppälä
Production: Jussi Rantamäki
Actors: Anna Kuusamo, Antti Haikkala

Production

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Kaarina (actress Tanja Heinänen) is an unemployed Finnish sawmill worker, who travels to Argentina to work after having enough of the short term jobs and relatioships back up North. The film is a personal statement about the ongoing global transformation of the forest industry.

“Catching” continues from the themes of the sawmill related short film “If I Fall”, by Hannaleena Hauru, 2007. The film is opening a universal aspect to the issues about forest industry – work, and the search of love. “Catching” is combining everyday work to a poetic context with a dramaturgic structure following a cross-section of a tree.

CATCHING (2009)
director: Hannaleena Hauru
actress: Tanja Heinänen
editor: Andrea Zapata Girau

Language: Finnish, with English subtitles

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“Vialliset otteet” is a docufiction about Elina and Ari (26) and their unconventional relationship. The film is mixing material based on true events and feelings, true dreams, imaginined things, fictive events and documentary. It’s my bachelor’s thesis work for ELO Helsinki Film School.

In its first screenings in TaiK “Vialliset otteet” consisted of parts where the actors were performing live to the film audience. The process of making the film consisted of researching how the emotional appeal in the live and filmed material was received by the audience. The final tape version of the film is the conclusion of a process, where for over a year the director and the two main actors, Tanja Heinänen and Eugene Kleparski, studied the differences of presence and reality gained in live performances in opposition to the presence on the screen. Hannaleena Hauru made her theoretical study on trying to achieve a realistic feel to fictive material. Also the project was a study on various acting and directing methods, seeking for a more “authentic” cinema. One focus point was in achieving an “improvised” feeling to strictly written scenes.

The film ends to a 5-minute counterpart made for the script of “Vialliset otteet”.

We made a special “DVD version” of the performative film. It’s in two parts here:

DIRECTOR Hannaleena Hauru

SCRIPT Hannaleena Hauru

PRODUCER Hannaleena Hauru

CINEMATOGRAPHY Aarne Tapola, Jan-Niclas Jansson, Hannaleena Hauru

SOUND Hannaleena Hauru

EDITING Hannaleena Hauru, Lasse Poser

SET BUILDERS Jouko Raudasoja, Juha-Matti Toppinen,

OTHER: Tommi Kainulainen, Jarno Muhonen (sound recordists)
Pietari Peltola (assist. cinematography)

MAIN CAST
Tanja Heinänen (Elina)
Eugene Kleparski (Ari)

Featuring: Pirjo Heikkilä, Hanna Juvonen, Robert Grunow, Lasse Poser.

Homepage of the film.

“So there are no poems coming to me” is influenced by the novel “Snow”, by Orhan Pamuk. Shot in Beijing and Kars (Turkey) in 2007. It’s a melancholic evocation of lost love.
director: Hannaleena Hauru

music: Lauri Wuolio

I’m examining here how the actual images discuss with images created only by writing.

The film was a part of workshop organized by Nisi Masa – European Network of Young Cinema.

“A nordic, but still universal film expressing the search of love in a poetic story of few words. The flawless directing of the film deals with human relations on many levels and with great complexity.”

-Jury’s statement: Uppsala International Short Film Festival Grand Prix 2008

A short film about Kaarina, a Finnish sawmill worker. She’s falling down repetitively without anyone noticing.

”If I Fall” (2007) was my graduation work for Tampere University of Applied Sciences. The script has been given the Nisi Masa script award in 2005, and after premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week carte blance in 2007, the short has been around quite many festivals (awards from Oberhausen, Tampere, Uppsala). I’m happy to have the film online now –it’s a bit shabby DVD rip, but I have the 35 mm print of the film in my flat, and promise to give a screening to anyone who has the screen and the projector.

IF I FALL

Starring: Tanja Heinänen, Ville Majamaa & Mikko Joukamaa

Script & Director: Hannaleena Hauru
Cinematography: Jan-Niclas Jansson
Editor: Sanna Ryhänen
Sound Design: Jussi Honka & Rauli Roininen
Music: Anna Huuskonen
Executive Producers: Anni Pänkäälä & Samu Reijonen

Awards:
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden, Grand Prix 2008.
54th Int. Short Film Festival Oberhausen, award of the cinema jury:
best 35 mm film under 15 min
Tampere Film Festival 2008: award of the youth jury
Blue Sea Film Festival, Baltic Herring 2007, 2. award on student category
Nisi Masa script award 2005

13 minutes, (shot originally on S16mm)

Ilja is a 18-year-old boy. He keeps tadpoles in a bucket in the backyard and is afraid to encounter his neighbour Anna.

with Juha-Matti Koskela, Anshelm Laine, Kaisa Malinen, Anni Eiristö, Sakari Kajosaari

script, director: Hannaleena Hauru
cinematography: Matti Ilmari Lehtinen
editors: Johanna Harmaala, Heidi Vilhunen
camera assistant: Anu Kaaja
assistant producer: Charlotta Kivistö
producer: Hannaleena Hauru / Tampere University of Applied Sciences, 2006,

Awards:
Vaasa Wildlife (Best Film in Youth Category), Finland

Glasses get lost in the lake..

The first short film I’ve written, and second that I ever directed. We were using 16mm film for the first time as well -we got one reel from the school and shot this.

4 min, Finnish English subtitles

with Ahti Jokinen and Marjut Sariola

script, dir: Hannaleena Hauru
cinematography: Jan-Niclas Jansson
editor: Jenny Tervakari
sound design: Jussi Aho
music: Petri Kallio
producer: Anu Kaaja
special thanks: Nina Tienhaara, Leo Viirret

made in 2005.