Finnish Film Foundation
The Finnish Film Foundation (Finnish: Suomen elokuvasäätiö; Swedish: Finlands filmstiftelse), is an independent foundation with the task of supporting and developing Finnish film production, distribution and exhibition. It is supervised by the Department for Cultural Policy in the Ministry of Education and Culture.
The foundation is supported by grants from the Finnish national lottery. The Finnish Film Foundation’s headquarters with its cinema are located in Katajanokka, Helsinki in a 19th-century harbour terminal.
The foundation is responsible for the export and international promotion of Finnish films. It also grants film production support for individual films, with an aim of supporting "high quality" productions.
The Managing Director of the foundation is , who replaced Irina Krohn as the director on 2016.
See also[]
- Finnish Film Archive
- List of film institutes
External links[]
- Foundations based in Finland
- Cinema of Finland
- Mass media in Helsinki
- Film organization stubs