Essi Suomela

Filmes

August
Line Producer
Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.
Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
Production Manager
Reindeerspotting is a documentary film of a group of young guys living in Rovaniemi, Arctic Circle, dabbling in petty crime and hard drugs. One of them, Jani, has lost five years of his life and two fingers to his debotators. He wants to leave Lapland and his old life behind. Robbing a supermarket is a start for his getaway. A few years back a documentarist, Joonas Neuvonen, was a young men living on social welfare, using drugs on daily basis. He started to film his friends and their life. This is the story of Jani.
Sauna
Production Manager
Quando uma guerra de 25 anos entre a Rússia e a Suécia termina, dois irmãos que fazem parte de um esforço para delinear novos acordos de fronteira tornam-se desfeitos por suas ações e pelos maus-tratos a uma jovem durante sua jornada.