Pia Andell

Finland

Biography

Pia Andell was born in 1964 in Finland. She graduated both from University of Industrial Arts (Fine Arts) and University of Tampere (Social Sciences) in Finland. She has worked in the Finnish Film Foundation as a film consultant and in the Finnish Broadcasting Company as a producer for short documentaries. Currently she works as a tutor on European Documentary Network EDN. The films of Pia Andell have been shown and awarded on many internationally renowned festivals, like IDFA, Prix Europa, BANFF and Nordisk Panorama. Since 2004, she runs her own production company Of Course My Films. She is also a ridiculously proud mother of two daughters.

Filmography:

Kaksi tapaa lähestyä kotia/ Two Ways to Find Home (38´, Finland, 1992)
Cinema Paris 1937 eli viattomuus vaarassa/ Cinema Paris 1937 or Innocence at Risk (27´, Finland, 1995)
Père Lachaise necropolis (50´, Finland, 1996)
Isoisä Durovin Ihmemaa/ Granpa Durov´s Wonderland (58´, Finland, 1997)
Laiva/ The Cruise (56´, Finland, 1999)
Père Lachaise - Seitsemän syytä käydä hautausmaalla (9´, Finland, 1999)
Pieni elokuva sisaruussuhteista/ Sibling Relations (20´, Finland, 2001)
Maailmassa/ Into the World (60´, Finland, 2004)
Hetket jotka jäivät/ Y in Viborg (51´, Finland, 2006)
Leikki/ Playing Adults (62´, Finland, 2008)
Göringin sauva/ Göring´s Baton (38´, Finland, 2010)
Havahtuminen/ Awakening (46´, Finland/France, 2011)
Matkustaja/ The Passenger (25´, Finland, 2012)

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Goring`s Baton

Goring`s Baton (Orig.) / 2010 / Finland / 38 min

Göring´s Baton tells the story of Felix Forsman, a young and curious Finnish war cinematographer, and his remarkable secret filming assignment in Nazi Germany.

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