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Maria Ruotsala
Script-writer/ Director
Born 15.3.1961 in Helsinki, Finland.
1968 She won the First Prize (including boys!) in cross-country skiing in the
school.
1974 She saw the film: The dog of Andalusia by Bunuel. She discovered a new world; a world of surrealism and cinematic art.
1984 Graduated from Art School in Helsinki. She won a price as a young promising artist in Finland. Since has been working as an artist, having several exhibitions and got several scholarships and grants.
1990 Was nominated as The Young Artist of the Year in Finland.
Her art works are bought for example to the collections of the Kiasma, The Modern Art Museum of Finland and The Pompidou Centre of Paris in France (a video).
1993 Graduated from the LCP, Video and Film department in England.
Films: (writer and director)
The Cost
Hyper Sensitive
Rose garden
Scripts: (writer and director)
Empty Sky (script ready to shoot)
Tomorrow (on writing stage)
Black Sun (on pre-production)
A Happy Home (on production)
Other film projects:
Saint Birgitte (will be just the director, now on a scriptwriting stage). We are planning to shoot it in Finland, France and Italy and with three different languages: Finnish/or Swedish, Italian and Latin.
On researching stage a film about a Finnish communist family who went to Russia after revolution to build up the Soviet Union. But soon they realised the horror and cruel truth behind the idealism ruled by Stalin. It?s about the daughter and her mother and grandmother who were sent to Siberia concentration camps and how the daughter managed to survive.
Cinema for her is a form of art. It is a poetic language, both intellectual and emotional form of expression where illusion and reality looses each other.
She wants to fight against the infantilism in the culture of cinema. Where are the art of the illusion, the reflections of the mind, the notes of the eye?
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