Mari Mantela
Mari Mantela (Born 1978 in Keuruu) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.
Background[edit]
Mari Mantela started studying Film at Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia (now Metropolia University of Applied Sciences) in Arts and Communication program, where she majored in camera technique and shooting. Mantela worked as a camera assistant while studying. She has filmed several short films and is the director behind the documentary Hallittua Sattumaa" (Controlled Coincidences). Mantela continued her studies at University of Art and Design Helsinki (now Aalto University School of Arts) in film director program in 2002.[1] In the same year her short film Tuliaisia (Homecoming gifts) was published.
Mantela’s student film Operaatio vieras äly (Operation Alien Intelligence), published in 2004, was bought by Sweden’s television SVT. Two years later, in 2006, Mantela’s student film Lasten kesken (The Children) won the Blue Sea Film Festival’s top prize.[2] Mantela’s En Autobiografi (An Autobiography) is the multiple award-winning short film in several international Film Festivals.[3]
Mari Mantela has directed over 300 commercial films both in her home country Finland and internationally for instance in Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal, Croatia, United Kingdom, and United Arab Emirates.
Mari Mantela is one of the writers of the book MeToo-vallankumous – Kuinka hiljaisuus rikottiin? (Like, 2018) "(MeToo-revolution – How the silence was broken?).[4]
En Autobiografi[edit]
An Autobiografi (2016) is a drama comedy of a woman who tries to retire from the underground garage. Cris Af Enehielm is starring the film as a woman who has an identity crisis. The premier of An Autobiografi was in the Brooklyn Film Festival’s official competition.[5] In 2017, the year after the premier, the film was awarded as the best European film in Reale Film Festival and People’s Choice at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.[6] People’s Choice award brought An Autobiography to spreading in Vermont, USA.
An Autobiography was awarded with People’s Choice award both in Los Angeles’ LA Indie Film Festival and in Madrid Film Festival in 2018. In the same year Cris Af Enehielm won the Best Actress award in Montelupo Fiorentino International Film Festival in Italy. Platinum Remi Award was awarded to An Autobiography by 51Th WorldFest Houston Festival in Texas.[7]
Filmography[edit]
- En Autobiografi (An Autobiography) (2016), debut in Yle TV1 18.12.2018.
- Passion (2012)[8], showed in Helsinki International Film Festival.
- Lasten kesken (The Children) (2005), Top prize at Blue Sea Film Festival.[9]
- Operaatio Vieras Äly (Operation Alien Intelligence) (2003), showed in SVT and in several international film festivals. Selected to be part of Tampere Film Festival’s domestic contest.
- Apinoiden Kuningas (King of Apes) (2002), official recognition of excellence in Arctic Film Festival of Nordic Films
- Tuliaisia (Homecoming gifts) (2002), showed in Yle TV1's New Cinema program and in Tampere Film Festival’s New Domestic program.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Mari Mantela". Finnish Film Catalogue.
- ↑ "Rauman elokuvajuhlien pääpalkinto Mari Mantelalle". Helsingin Sanomat. 2006-08-20.
- ↑ "En Autobiography - A Film by Mari Mantela". Your Film Festival Agency.
- ↑ "metoo-vallankumous". Like Kustannus.
- ↑ "AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Mari Mantela @ Brooklyn Film Festival".
- ↑ "En Autobiography - A Film by Mari Mantela". Your Film Festival Agency.
- ↑ "Cris af Enehielm belönas i Italien". www.hbl.fi.
- ↑ "Love and Anarchy -traileri".
- ↑ "Rauman elokuvajuhlien pääpalkinto Mari Mantelalle". Helsingin Sanomat.
External links[edit]
- Mari Mantela in Finnish Film catalogue
- Kriitikko Pertti Avola: Ruotsinkielinen lyhytelokuva Autobiografia on haikeasti koominen tarina työnarkomaanista (In Finnish)
- Mari Mantela’s warm and sharply observed Finnish comedy lovingly portrays a take-charge woman
- Hufvudstadsbladet: rädslan för döden blev succé på film (In Swedish)
- Mari Mantela interview by Indy Shorts 2018
- Mari Mantela interview by Middlebury filmmaker forum 2018
- Mari Mantela interview by renderforest
- Mari Mantela interview by La Cabina Film Festival Valencia 2017
- Konstsamfundets årsmagasin 2016_Mantela och Heydemann gjorde film om kvinnlig arbetsindentitet (In Swedish)
- Mari Mantela in Vimeo
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