NORMAL
How to survive as a late bloomer millenial queer in a Gen Z world?
— Veera, 29, #confused
SERIES | 8 X 30’ | Creator Riikka Korhonen | Director & Writer Inka Rusi
Production company Onerva Pictures Oy | GENRE Drama Comedy
STATUS in development at YLE The Finnish Broadcasting Company
FINLAND
SHADOW STATE
Finnish title: Putinin Trollit - Totuus on tehtävä
A Finnish journalist becomes a target of the Russian state as she begins to expose the hidden machinery behind Putin’s war on the West.
Inspired by the international bestseller Putin’s Trolls - On the Frontlines of Russia’s information War against the World by Jessikka Aro
SERIES | 8 X 45’ | Created by: Inka Rusi & Tanja Rusi | Scriptwriters: Alex Kendall & Kira Poutanen
Producers: Tanja Rusi, Kathrin Lohmann & Gudny Hummelvoll
GENRE: drama, political thriller, espionage, suspense | STATUS: in development
The project has been granted development funding from the Finnish Film Foundation in 2022.
FINLAND | GERMANY | NORWAY
SELF MAID
Finnish title Valoisa kaupunkini / Min Ljusa Stad
An immigrant housemaid working in 1930s New York City achieves overnight fame with her debut novel but when she returns home to the remote Åland Islands, her plans are challenged by the patriarchal literary establishment and a looming World War
MNISERIES | Director Inka Rusi | Producer Tanja Rusi
GENRE: drama, magical realism | STATUS: in development
The project has been granted development funding from the Finnish Film Foundation in 2021 and Konstamfundet in 2022.