Finnish film producer and director Hanna Hemilä's career highpoints include her role as the line producer on Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre (winner of the International Critics' Award at the 64th Cannes Film Festival) and producer of the universally acclaimed and multi-award winning family feature film, Pelicanman by Liisa Helminen (Berlinale, 2005), as well as numerous documentaries, animated films and multinational cinema co-productions.
Hemilä made her directorial debut with the Finnish-American documentary feature Paavo, a Life in Five Courses (opening the 2012 Eurodok film festival, Oslo). Hemilä's notable productions include the features Bad Family (Berlinale/Panorama 2010), Wolf, a Swedish- Finnish-Norwegian film starring Peter Stormare (2008), Guarded Secrets, a Hungarian-Austrian-Finnish film (2004) and the period movie Gold Fever in Lapland (1999); the internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning animation series Tootletubs & Jyro (2001) and Urpo & Turpo (1996); the documentaries Tove and Tooti in Europe (2004) and Haru, the Island of the Solitary (1998) about the legendary author and creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson, and her partner Tuulikki Pietilä.
Hanna Hemilä received the Finnish State's Art Award in 2001. Hanna was nominated in 2005 for Best Film in the national Oscars (Jussi-award) and, in 2004, for the Film- Finlandia award.
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