Kira Jääskeläinen Explained

Kira Jääskeläinen
Birth Date:1979 7, df=yes
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Notable Works:Takigaks – Once Were Hunters
Occupation:documentary film director

Kira Jääskeläinen (born 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Finnish-Polish documentary film director.[1] [2]

Background

Jääskeläinen was born in Poland into a family of artists, but moved to Finland at the age of five.[3] In the early years of the 2000s Jääskeläinen studied humanities at the University of Copenhagen, concentrating in East European Studies and the Russian language, and wrote her MA thesis on the material she collected in Chukotka. Later she studied in Moscow, in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, majoring in documentary film making.[4] Jääskeläinen has also studied classical music and plays the cello.

Family

The Finnish documentarist Jarmo Jääskeläinen (1937–2022) was her father.[5]

Films

See main article: Takigaks – Once Were Hunters. Jääskeläinen's first documentary Takigaks – Once Were Hunters was released in 2012. It tells about two brothers, Kolya and Sasha, who are Siberian Yupiks and live in the village of Novoye Chaplino in the eastern extremity of the Chukotka Peninsula. Their community has traditionally practised whale hunting, but some of the youth find themselves in the midst of an identity crisis, if, for some reason, they do not find this profession appealing.[6] The filming of this documentary took place over five years.[6]

The film has been shown on several film festivals and on the Finnish public YLE TV1 channel in 2014.[7]

Jääskeläinen is working on a film on a one-hundred-year-old cello, which was found on a dumpster in Copenhagen, and another documentary film on Chukotka.

Filmography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Römpötti . Harri . 28 Feb 2014 . Unelmia Kiinasta ja Kaukoidästä ('Dreams of China and the Far East') . Helsingin Sanomat, NYT . 26 .
  2. Web site: Barents Ecology Film Festival: Tagikaks . Barents Ecology Film Festival . 2014-03-04.
  3. Web site: Tekijä: Kira Jääskeläinen . Laurikainen . Ilona . 13 March 2013 . YLE Radio 1 / YLE Areena .
  4. Web site: Siperiassa 100 vuotta Sakari Pälsin jälkeen: Elokuvaesitys ('In Siberia 100 years after Sakari Pälsi: Screening of a documentary film') . 2014-03-04 .
  5. News: Dokumenttielokuvat olivat tuottajan ja ohjaajan elämäntyö . ‘Documentaries were the life work of the producer and director’ . Iikka Vehkalahti, Jarmo Mäkelä . Helsingin Sanomat . Sanoma . Helsinki . 5 Jan 2022 . B15 . 6 Jan 2022 . fi .
  6. 28 Feb 2014 . Harvinainen kuvaus valaanpyynnistä ('A rare film on whale hunting') . .
  7. Web site: Dokumenttiprojekti: Olimme valaanpyytäjiä . YLE Areena . 2014-03-04.