Lassi Hautamäki

2nd AD Crowd

Calm, sharp and simply charming – Lassi is your go-to-person when it comes to crowds and casting!

Having worked with both local and international productions Lassi is someone who’s flexible on all needs. Especially loving the set work Lassi feels being at their best when focusing on directing of crowds and featured extras. They’re fast on creating suitable atmospheres to make the scenes look realistic and natural. On the side they’re also experienced on crowd casting on multiple productions.

Lassi’s former productions vary from more lightweight series into larger scale sets. They know their way around intimate scenes with few extras and big scenes with crowds and vehicles. For their next productions Lassi is happy to jump on either or something in between – as well as look into more international position of the 3rd AD assisting the 1st on running the set.

Besides their work on the AD’s department Lassi has passion for writing and directing. They’ve completed multiple independent short films and music videos on these positions and are hoping to evolve their skills into features and series in the future.

Skills

Crowd casting
Crowd management
Directing crowds and featured extras

Softwares

MS Excel (intermediate)
MS Word (intermediate)
MS Power Point (intermediate)
Google Drive (intermediate)
Final Draft (intermediate)
Canva (basics)

Certificates

First Aid 1 (EA1)
First Aid 2 (EA2)
Hot Work Certificate

Languages

Finnish (native)
English (professional working proficiency)
Swedish (limited working proficiency)

Education details

Bachelor’s Degree in Media / Tampere University of Applied Sciences / Graduated in 2023

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Selected works

Feature Films

AS 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & CROWD CASTING

Perhoset / Tekele Productions / 2023 – dir. Jenni Toivoniemi

TV Series

AS 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & CROWD CASTING

Pohjoisen Tähti S2 / Yellow Film & TV / 2024 – dir. Teppo Airaksinen
L/Over S1 / Gutsy Productions / TBA – dir. TBC – additional
Limbo S1 / Yellow Film & TV / 2023 – dir. Kaya Pakaslahti
Kiitos Elämä S1 / Tekele Productions / 2024 – dir. Malin Nyqvist & Milla Pelkonen – additional (daily)
Last To Brake S1 / Funfar / 2024 – dir. Simon Kaijser – additional (daily)
Estonia S1 / Fisher King / 2023 – dir. Måns Månsson & Juuso Syrjä – Finnish Unit

AS A CROWD AD TRAINEE

Codename Annika / Helsinki Filmi / 2023 – dir. AJ Annila

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