https://www.thinkseedfilms.com/projects daily 1.0 2020-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557255703097-YT8EOXJM1LY9C4XR2ZPU/Screen+Shot+2019-05-07+at+3.01.09+PM.png Work - LAND OF MUTATIONS Finland is renowned for its peculiar hereditary diseases, owing to a landscape of isolation. This phenomenon has enabled doctors and geneticists to interpret the human genetic code. In Land of Mutations, we discover how the knowledge gained from the research into Finnish Disease Heritage has changed the lives of the patients and doctors in Finland and beyond. Genre: Documentary Status: Post-Production Release Date: TBA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557255889304-VQNKY6GJ4JBU8CQF2WV4/Screen+Shot+2017-03-30+at+4.07.07+PM.png Work - JUHANI'S MINIMANI An inspirational journey of an eccentric Finnish Entrepreneur from a clerk in a small town store to owning one of the largest hypermarket chains in Finland. Genre: Documentary Status: Completed Release Date: 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1589399064186-FCPJFTWFS6ATWFGR9V84/Wombsong+poster.png Work - WOMBSONG Wombsong is a virtual dance experience. A pregnant dancer leads the audience to an imaginary world inside the womb. It's a study of the nature of expecting life to be born and the pregnant body's relationship to the harmony inside. It plays with the thought of the fetus's experience inside a dancing body and creates different feeling spaces. The baby's first contact with a tightly embracing, big and mysterious being is as much a mystery as the dancer's relationship to the budding life inside. The soundscape is created from the authentic sounds recorded through the dancer's pregnant belly and dancer's voice as well as the voice of the baby, who was born after the filming. Status: Completed Release Date: 2018 Accolades: Official Selection - LOIKKA Dance Film Festival, 2018 Official Selection - 360 Film Festival/SATIS Expo, 2018 Official Selection - Kinetoscope VR Festival/Seattle Film Summit, 2018 Nominated for Best VR film - New York City Independent Film Festival, 2019 Official Selection - Harlem International Film Festival, 2019 Finalist for Best VR made by Women - The Fine Arts Film Festival, 2019 Official Selection - ShorTS International Film Festival, 2019 Official selection - Vox Popular Media Arts Festival, 2019 Official selection - SPLIT Film Festival, 2019 Official selection - San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2019 Official selection - Aesthetica Short Film Festival, 2019 Official selection - Moovy Tanzfilmfestival, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1596581440201-JNIQQ4Q9UJQ9S4L40KHX/SATI_poster.png Work - MAN UNDER BRIDGE Man Under Bridge had its international premiere at the 77th Venice Film Festival 2020 - Venice VR Expanded This unique virtual reality experience combines animation with photos and voice recordings from the Helsinki City Museum archives, placing the users in a historical tram into an experience that allows them to have a moment with a drunk historian, who collected anecdotes from Helsinki's homeless and alcoholics in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1685886218940-ATQUV5EV1THA0XZFAUQX/BIENNALE-PALIMPSEST-poster-web-1.jpg Work - PALIMPSEST Two elderly roommates are selected for a medical trial that makes them younger. Given a second chance at life, with the memories of their past life intact, they realize that growing young is not just fun. Status: Festival Run Format: Feature World Premiere - 79th Venice International Film Festival (2022) Finland Premiere - Midnight Sun Film Festival (2023) Director: Hanna Västinsalo Producers: Cyril Abraham, Aino Halonen Production Manager: Kati Jaura Cinematographer: Henry Dhuy Production Designer: Jonathan Kyöttinen Editor: Tarek Karkoutly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1596669213407-8WU45PKNKTVKLTMVDEK0/cloud-sky-fog-sunrise-mist-morning-718382-pxhere.com.jpg Work - JUST ANOTHER WEDNESDAY A couple desperate to have a child finally finds themselves pregnant, but a buried secret in her dead mother’s house comes out for vengeance for her past sins. Genre: Horror, Drama Status: Pre-Production Format: Feature https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557249996949-658Z7OF1GAYJA434A85B/Will+o%27the+Wisp+art.png Work - WILL O'THE WISP A woman defies death through centuries by killing her babies instead of honoring a deal she made with the water spirits while drowning. Then her surviving son sets on a hunt to avenge his siblings. Genre: Horror Status: Script in Development https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557250039131-NSSAX24R7MCR0YXY69UT/TOUCH_still.jpg Work - TOUCH Two siblings struggle to keep control of their lives as they slowly go blind and deaf from a degenerative disease. Genre: Horror, Drama Status: Completed Format: Short https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557254488941-JD8WEXH9L54WZV6TNPU7/FATHER_Still.jpg Work - FATHER At her grandfather’s funeral, a little girl’s perception of the afterlife shatters when she hears her father’s eulogy. Genre: Supernatural, Drama Status: Completed Format: Short Accolades: Production support by Finnish Film Foundation, Finlandia Foundation, Oskar Öflunds Stiftelse Official Selection - Culver City Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection - Helsinki Short Film Festival, 2015 Best Student Short - Underexposed Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection - Tokyo International Student Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection - Carmel International Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection - Laguna Film Festival, 2015 Semifinalist - Great Lakes International Film Festival, 2015 Best Drama, Best Child Actor - Humphrey Bogart Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection - Blue Sea Film Festival, 2015 Special Mention - Festival Internacional De Cine Contracorriente, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557254649167-5DMLL2HB680F57MWQ7X6/Screen+Shot+2017-04-11+at+12.28.09+PM.png Work - RISE A man sacrifices himself for his wife wrongly tried for murder in Revolutionary Russia. Genre: Period Drama Status: Completed Format: Short Accolades: Semi-Finalist – Student Academy Awards, 2015 Official Selection – 2nd Goa Short Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection – Newport Beach Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection – Cleveland International Film Festival, 2015 Official Selection – Dances With Films, 2015 Official Selection – Flathead Lake International Cinemafest Nominee – Best Student Film – Norwich Film Festival, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1596669459962-YK512I3RPRT71NGDRAXP/Heaven.jpg Work - HEAVEN A catholic nun inherits a business from her estranged father that is at odds with everything she stands for – an all-male brothel. She must now straddle the fine line of taking care of the men whose lives depend on the brothel’s business while preaching the message of the Lord, and Love. Genre: Drama, Suspense, Comedy Status: Script Available https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557255389258-15VWY1NRBNC7C79X8KAL/Screen+Shot+2018-07-20+at+5.02.09+PM.png Work - ISMO The misadventures of comedian Ismo Leikola and his manager/best friend as they overcome cultural hurdles on their trip to the U.S.A. ThinkSeed Entertainment was the production partner in Los Angeles. Year 2016 https://www.thinkseedfilms.com/work daily 0.75 2021-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557428034480-8P047VGLTG9YKA7NY9L4/Screen%252BShot%252B2019-05-09%252Bat%252B2.32.28%252BPM.jpg About Hanna Västinsalo Hanna Vastinsalo did her PhD in molecular genetics at the University of Helsinki, Finland and an MFA in film directing from the American Film Institute, Los Angeles. Last May she talked about how the science and film inspire each other in TEDxHelsinkiUniversity event. After all, her love for genetics began after watching Jurassic Park Film and science are both based on experimentation and willingness to test approaches nobody has tried before. Hanna's passion is to show the hidden side of science that people outside the community don’t see. A lot of people see science as something unapproachable, cold and clinical, but the scientists see the poetry and humanity inside the facts. She is currently directing a short virtual reality experience and an exhibition for Helsinki City Museum for fall 2019. She did a virtual reality dance experience that has been shown in Seattle Film Summit and SATIS expo in Paris November 2018. She has also adapted a feature screenplay for a Finnish production company about climate change. Her films have been screened at several festivals: 360 Film Festival, Helsinki Short Film Festival, Underexposed Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival, Carmel International Film Festival, Laguna Film Festival, Great Lakes International Film Festival and Humphrey Bogart Film Festival. She also has been the recipient of several grants: Finnish Culture Foundation, Folkhälsan tutkimussäätiö, Finlandia Foundation, AVEK, Finnish Film Foundation, and Alfred P. Sloan scholarship. Her work can be seen on her website: www.hannavastinsalo.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557428265810-20REQMS4OXSF3VR9HFW7/2014-09-25%2B11.11.05.jpg About Cyril Abraham Diverging from a biomedical engineering career, Cyril graduated from the American Film Institute (AFI) producing program in 2014, where his thesis film RISE was a semi-finalist at the Student Academy Awards. Since then he line-produced a television show ‘Ismo’ for Finnish television and produced a documentary ‘Juhani’s Minimani.’ He was also an associate producer for ‘The Journey is the Destination’ that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2016. As a producer with extensive international experience, Cyril is also a consultant producer at INVAR Studios that led to the studio's TV project, SNAKE, to be commissioned by Zee TV, one of the largest distributors in India. The show is based on the life of notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj. In the VR space, Cyril produced WOMBSONG, which is currently touring the festivals. He is also developing a Mexican-Indian romcom that is set around a fictional border wall between Mexico and the United States. Currently, Cyril is producing Hanna Vastinsalo’s documentary, “Land of Mutations,” which sheds light on how studies into Finnish rare hereditary diseases have impacted the lives of people worldwide. A believer of “Enlightenment through Entertainment,” Cyril’s goal at ThinkSeed Films is to share stories that are not only commercially viable in today’s global marketplace but have an impactful, positive message behind them. https://www.thinkseedfilms.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-04 https://www.thinkseedfilms.com/commercial daily 0.75 2019-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557257594283-HULBTYQ0SFDJGIG48PFT/ALBERTO+-+EL+REY.png COMMERCIAL - LATINO LENS - EL REY Promotional content for NALIP and Robert Rodriguez's El Rey Network's Latino Lens Short Film competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58e7b487e3df286cf6de7065/1557263664950-HTXYK6WM489S9KTURKH6/Screen+Shot+2019-05-07+at+5.13.56+PM.png COMMERCIAL - HER SILENT NIGHT Music Video Artist: Paul Rose Album: The Real Thing https://www.thinkseedfilms.com/her-silent-night daily 0.75 2019-05-07