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• 16.6.2025
• AVEK

Kaya Pakaslahti’s film asks: When does autofiction turn into betrayal?

Writer and director Kaya Pakaslahti explores the tension between artistic freedom and personal responsibility in her debut feature film My Year in Fiction. In the psychological drama, a teacher and a student blur the lines between art and life. This interview is part of a series introducing the filmmakers and projects selected for Kehittämö Talent Development Lab.

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• 11.6.2025
• AVEK

Narrative film by Juho-Pekka Tanskanen combines realistic and magical expression

Director Juho-Pekka Tanskanen is working on his first feature film Beatan kevät in the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab. Tanskanen, who has previously directed documentary films, explains his relationship with fictional film and talks about the significance of the cooperation between the producer and the director in terms of the film. The interview is part of a series on creators and their projects in the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab.

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• 9.6.2025
• AVEK

Laura Rantanen’s documentary film is a tribute to mobile libraries

In her film, director Laura Rantanen looks into mobile libraries, the people who use them and phenomena related to reading. The film Elämänlanka (Lifeline) defends everyone’s right to free art, information and stories. The interview is part of a series of articles presenting the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 6.6.2025
• AVEK

The identity of a shopping centre security guard crumbles in the film by Veikko Timonen and Arman Zafari

Screenwriter Veikko Timonen and director Arman Zafari are developing the film Kaikkialla (Everywhere), which examines identity, the feeling of guilt and social rules as well as asks who the rules ultimately protect. The interview is part of a series of articles presenting the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 3.6.2025
• AVEK

Hannu Karjalainen’s essay film is about an attempt to better understand the forest

In his film The Forest Is Wired For Wisdom, the artist Hannu Karjalainen examines trees and the forest both as organisms capable of communication and as strange and uncontrollable beings. The documentary essay advocates the biodiversity of forests. The series of articles presents the creators selected for the Kehittämö programme and their projects.

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• 10.4.2025
• AVEK

New voices get funding in the Finnish film industry

Five filmmakers have been chosen for the Kehittämö Talent Development Lab to promote their ideas for new works with the help of the funding and personal mentoring provided by this programme. A joint programme of AVEK and the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Kehittämö is a glimmer of light in the audiovisual industry, which has been ravaged by funding cuts.

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• 21.2.2025
• AVEK

Call for applications and seminar invitation: Young People’s Short Film Festival project

AVEK, the Church Media Foundation and Yle are launching a new cooperation project to fund four short films targeted at people aged 16–19.

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• 17.2.2025
• AVEK

Record number of applications for AVEK grants in 2024

Last year, AVEK distributed a total of €2.9 million in grants to the audiovisual industry. The plight of the industry and the foreknowledge that AVEK’s funding would be cut were reflected in an upsurge in applications. 2024 was the last normal year for AVEK. Due to the halving of AVEK’s main source of funding, the compensation for private copying, there is still no certainty about this year’s funding.

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• 17.2.2025
• AVEK

AVEK invites applications for scriptwriting support, project grants and support for international promotion

Due to the cut in the compensation for private copying, we have not yet received the funds for this year. However, we will open the call for applications for some of the grants with the help of grant funds carried over from last year and the national funds granted by the Kopiosto Board.

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• 22.11.2024
• AVEK

Application processing backlogged

This year, the continuous grant application period exceptionally closed at the end of October. We received a huge number of grant applications, especially for audiovisual works. We aim to reach decisions on all applications received by the deadline by the end of the year.

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