Dome Karukoski

Dome Karukoski moved to Finland from Cyprus, when he was four years old. His mother is a Finish journalist and his father an American actor George Dickerson. He is bilingual with Swedish and Finnish. He was selected to the University of Art and Design of Helsinki in 1999. That year, three students were selected to become students majoring in directing. Tyttö, sinä olet tähti (Beauty and the Bastard, 2005) was Karukoski's graduation film.The Home of Dark Butteflies is his second festure. Karukoski has several national championships as a coach and a player in American football and Floorball. Because of that, has an odd trademark of arriving to premiere's and galas: "straight from practice". Has said in interviews, that he never misses practice.

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