Let us introduce you to Olli – one of our strong Assistant Directors ready to rock your production.

What’s special with Olli is his humble yet sharp attitude towards filmmaking – he truly understands different scales of productions and continuously evolves his skills in all positions he works in. Though Olli’s skillset is suitable for many job titles he has mainly focused on 2nd AD’ing and shifted into his first fiction production as the 1st AD last year. This advancement has been rather smooth as he was already familiar with many aspects of this work.

With Olli’s experience from locations, logistics, crowd casting and management he is a great asset for everyone in the production making sure information flows from one department to another. He has seen both larger scale productions with international companies and local projects with lightweight teams. He’s been widely liked as a team mate – it’s not rare to have productions requesting for Olli above anyone else.

Olli’s background is in locations department and he still scouts every now and then when having free slots in his calendar. He also visits film schools regularly to teach about his work. So far he’s been teaching in Metropolia University and Omnia Film Skills education – and continues to work as one of the regular teachers in Walk & Talk’s the AD Bootcamp.

Education details

Bachelor’s degree, Film and Television Production Management / Metropolia University of Applied Sciences / Graduated 2020

Financial management / Mercuria Business School Business and Administration / Graduated 2010

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Selected works

Feature Films

AS A 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Stormskärs Maja / Solar Films Oy / 2024 – dir. Tiina Lymi
Sisu / Freezing Point Oy / 2022 – dir. Jalmari Helander

AS A PRODUCTION PLANNER

TBA / East Film / TBA – dir. TBA

TV Series

AS A 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Tonttuakatemia 2 / Kaiho Republic / 2025 – dir. Jussi Lehtomäki
Queen of Fucking Everything / Rabbit Films / TBA – dir. Tiina Lymi
Mies joka kuoli S2 / Reel Media / TBA – dir. Samuli Valkama – pre production
Sijainen S1 / Helsinki Filmi / 2022 – dir. Jyri Kähönen – additional

AS A 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Guts / Just Republic / TBA – dir. TBA – currently in pre-production
Helsinki Syndrome S2 / Fisher King Production / TBA – dir. Juuso Syrjä, Marko Mäkilaakso
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love / Jaywalk Studios, Tencent Video Productions, Inland Film Company / 2024 – dir. Tien-Jen Huang, Bo Yu – Helsinki
Poromafia S1 / Kaiho Republic / 2023 – dir. Mika Kurvinen
Mies joka kuoli S1 / Reel Media / 2022 – dir. Samuli Valkama
Transport S1 / Tekele Productions / 2022 – dir. Auli Mantila

AS A 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Codename Annika / Helsinki Filmi / 2023 – dir. AJ Annila
Modernit Miehet S2 / Moskito Television / 2021 – dir. Juha Pursiainen, Jäppi Savolainen
Perfect Commando S1 / Fire Monkey Productions / 2020 – dir. Jalmari Helander
White Wall S1 / Moskito Television / 2020 – dir. Aleksi Salmenperä – additional

AS A LOCATION MANAGER

Duke of Sipoo S2 / Yellow Film & TV / 2019 – dir. Antti Heikki Pesonen

Commercials

AS A 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Nelonen / Directors Guild / 2022 – dir. Teemu Niukkanen
K-market / Directors Guild / 2022 – dir. Miikka Lommi
DNA Apuri / Directors Guild / 2022 – dir. Tuukka Harala
McDonald’s: Työnantaja-mielikuva / Woodpecker / 2022
Makita / Metropolia University / 2018 – dir. Sakari Sankkinen

AS A 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Digita / Otto Tuotanto / 2022

AS A SCOUT & LOCATION MANAGER

Sokos Hotel / Pictures Helsinki / 2022 – Location Manager
02 Taksi / TBWA / 2022
Caruna / TBWA / 2020
Arla Got Guts / TBWA / 2020 – Scout
Telia #Yhdessä / TBWA / 2020 – Scout
Stora Enso / Vaisto Creative / 2020 – Scout

Short Films

AS A 1ST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Ne jotka putoaa / Aalto University, ELO Film School / 2021 – dir. Helmi Donner
Suoterapia / Metropolia University, Luodo Oy / 2021 – dir. Santtu Salminen