FILMS PEOPLE WATCH SERVICES NEWS CONTACT STORY KIELI NEWS NEWER NEWS OLDER NEWS NEWS ARCHIVE Once I Was a Dragonfly premieres at DocPoint 2017-01-05T18:02:28Z 25-year-old Miikka Friman is in a turning point in his life, he needs to step away from the expeditions with dragonflies that has taken 18 years of his life and enter a grown-up everyday life. Miikka Friman has spent almost all his life filming dragonflies and himself among them. Once I was a Dragonfly -documentary film is screened at DocPoint -festival in Helsinki in late January and early February. Premiere: Thursday the 26th of January at 7.15 PM, Kinopalatsi, hall 1 (double screening with short film Blessings) Second screening: Friday the 27th of January, at 2 PM, Kinopalatsi, hall 2 (double screening with short film Blessings) DocPoint After Screening: Sunday the 5th of February, at 2 PM, Karatalo, Espoo There will be screenings at different events around Finland in spring time. These screenings will be informed in Tuffi Films' communicational channels. Season's greetings 2016-12-22T13:49:29Z Thank you for this year! We wish you all a relaxing Christmas time and all the best for 2017! This Christmas we have donated for girls’ education and protection in development countries through Plan International. Remember our films are available to watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/tuffifilms/vod_pages See you next year, Elli, Jenni, Kirsikka, Sanna, Selma & Venla #ThisIsMe - casting call for a web documentary project 2016-08-16T10:35:35Z Tuffi Films is producing a web campaign and short documentaries entitled #ThisIsMe and is currently searching girls between 11 and 13 years old to perform in the project. See the Finnish translation of the page for the casting call. Vaihda sivun kieli suomeksi niin näet casting-ilmoituksen. The web campaign will make use of the web’s positive sides and encourage girls to make their dreams happen by supporting each other’s goals. The ThisIsMe short films will be directed by Jenni Tuli and Aino Suni and it is part of the Kids@Docs program backed by AVEK, the Finnish Film Foundation and Yle. The campaign will be launched in early 2017. Creative Europe supports Tuffi's upcoming projects 2016-08-15T07:48:39Z Tuffi Films' two feature films, a documentary and a tv series get EU's Creative Europe programme's Media Slate Funding almost 190 000 euros. The funding is aimed at international co-productions and projects with international potential. The projects are Stupid Young Heart (by Selma Vilhunen, script Kirsikka Saari), Social Game (by Jenni Toivoniemi), Troubled Waters (by Veera Lehto-Michaud) and comedy series Granny Up Your Life (by Kirsikka Saari & Jenni Toivoniemi). Tuffi Films and the projects were desicribed: ”The company has good position both nationally and on an international level. They have clear vision and a good hand for hot topics, audience, formats, genres, partner and individually needed approaches. (…) The topics are highly interesting and go across borders.” More information: Producer Venla Hellstedt +358 40 930 9905 www.mediadesk.fi/https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/selection-results/media-slate-funding-2016-call-eacea192015_en Tuffi Films @ Tubecon 2016! 2016-08-11T13:28:12Z Tuffi Films is taking part in the largest live gathering of the YouTube community in the Nordics this weekend! Tuffi Films will host a booth for the documentary film Hobbyhorse Revolution at the Tubecon event. The teaser of the film, directed by Selma Vilhunen, will be launched on Friday at 3 pm at Tubecon and on YouTube. The Instagram account of the film will be launched at the same time. Read more about the film here: http://www.tuffifilms.com/production/hobbyhorse-revolution Boyfriend in México 2016-08-05T10:00:55Z Tuffi's community film Poikaystävä (Boyfriend) directed by Kirsikka Saari & Jenni Toivoniemi is still traveling. It will be screened in México in the 21° Festival Internacional de Cine para Niños (…y no tan Niños) Aug 9th - Aug 14th. http://www.lamatatena.org/…/21thfest…/cortos-de-ficcion.html Tuffi Films Ltd. Vanha Talvitie 2 A 12 00580 Helsinki Finland