GÖTEBORG — Indie distributor Intramovies has signed on to handle international sales for the upcoming Finnish feature “Light Light Light.”
Directed by Inari Niemi, and produced by Oskari Huttu at Lucy Loves Drama, the film is an adaptation of the 2011 book “Valoa Valoa Valoa” by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. Writer-actress Juuli Niemi (“Summertime”) wrote the screenplay for the film.
Currently in post-production, the story is set in the spring of 1986, when there is an explosion in Chernobyl. A girl called Mimi arrives in a small village in western Finland. She immediately fills 15-year-old Mariia’s life with light. 20-years-later, Mariia returns home to take care of her sick mother, and memories of that meaningful summer start rising to the surface.
Said Niemi: “When I first read the novel ‘Light Light Light,’ which our film is based on, the thing that I found the most extraordinary was the way the author Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen portrayed the two main characters,...
Directed by Inari Niemi, and produced by Oskari Huttu at Lucy Loves Drama, the film is an adaptation of the 2011 book “Valoa Valoa Valoa” by Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen. Writer-actress Juuli Niemi (“Summertime”) wrote the screenplay for the film.
Currently in post-production, the story is set in the spring of 1986, when there is an explosion in Chernobyl. A girl called Mimi arrives in a small village in western Finland. She immediately fills 15-year-old Mariia’s life with light. 20-years-later, Mariia returns home to take care of her sick mother, and memories of that meaningful summer start rising to the surface.
Said Niemi: “When I first read the novel ‘Light Light Light,’ which our film is based on, the thing that I found the most extraordinary was the way the author Vilja-Tuulia Huotarinen portrayed the two main characters,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
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