Sini Kiias

Crowd AD

An aspiring casting talent Sini is a former Make Up Artist and Hairdresser who’s shifted into assistant directing and casting in 2022.

Sini’s speciality is open, hands-on attitude with exceptionally good social skills. She’s in her element with cast, extras, elderly, kids – anyone who needs a little extra care and love (may we say most of filmmakers in the middle of any production!). Sini works efficiently and is willing to learn more to be able to deliver even better in the future.

Sini has been able to develop her skills further on both casting and on-set crowd management during the last year. Currently she’s looking into gaining more experience as the Extras Casting Director or Crowd AD. She’s also interested in evolving her skill set in productional work – on everything regarding preparations for productions, administration, HR and so on. Every now and then Sini also jumps back into Make Up and Hair – she’s assisted on larger productions and even has few shorts as the Designer under her belt.

Logical positions for Sini are would be working either as the 3rd AD, Crowd AD or Extras Casting Director on a local, smaller scale production (eg. lower budget TV series) or as a part of AD or production teams on a larger one. She’s also a potential worker for any production office or set – helping hand for the production team starting from running errands to coordinating cast and extras.

Skills

Extras casting
Extras coordination on set
Working with kids
Production assisting
Make up and hair

Softwares

MMS (basics)
GEST (basics)
MS Office (basics)

Languages

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

Education details

BA in scriptwriting and media content production
(Film & Television) / Metropolia University of Applied Sciences / Graduated in 2023
Participant at BBG AD Bootcamp – 8-week further education course of Assistant Directing / 2022
Beauty Marketing Degree / Helsinki Design School / 2014
Vocational School studies of Hair & Makeup Artist / International Make Up Centre / 2008

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Selected works

TV Series

AS A 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Ride Out / Funfar / 2024 – dir. Simon Kajser – additional, Helsinki Fall Unit

AS AN EXTRAS CASTING DIRECTOR

TBA / Yellow Film & TV / TBA – dir. TBA – extras casting currenly filming
Ride Out / Funfar / 2024 – dir. Simon Kajser – extras casting Helsinki Winter Unit

AS A 3RD ASSISTANT DIRECTOR TRAINEE

Dance Brothers / Endemol Shine Finland / 2023 – dir. Taito Kawata

AS A CRAFTY

To Cook a Bear S1 / Anagram Sweden, Walt Disney Company Nordic / TBA – dir. Trygve Allister Diesen – Finnish Unit, also filling in for Hospitality Manager

AS A LOCATIONS ASSISTANT / TRAFFIC CONTROLLER

Etsijät S1 / Tack Films / 2023 – dir. Teppo Airaksinen

AS A PRODUCTION ASSISTANT INTERN

Sininen Enkeli / Solar Films / 2022 – dir. Aleksi Mäkelä – also credited as MUAH Assistant

Feature Films

AS A 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (EXTRAS MANAGEMENT)

TBC / Yellow Film & TV / TBA – dir. TBA – additional

AS A CROWD PA

Apathy / 3 Brothes, Amrion / TBA – dir. Alexandros Avranas – Finland Unit, additional

Shorts

AS AN ASSISTANT CASTING DIRECTOR

Stump / Reel Issues Films / 2023 – dir. Silva Kuusniemi – also credited as Production Assistant
TBA / Far Out / 2023 – dir. Anssi Määttä – extras & featured extras

Commercials

AS A CASTING DIRECTOR

John Nurmisen Säätiö / ELO Film School / 2022 – dir. Alicia Corpas

AS AN ASSISTANT CASTING DIRECTOR

TBA / Askel Company / 2023 – dir. TBA
TBA / Otto Tuotanto / 2023 – dir. TBA – extras casting
Sokos Hotels / Veli Creative / 2023 – dir. TBC
Pfizer / Dammit Janet Productions / 2023 – dir. Kristian Setälä
Aamulehti / Harju Group / 2023 – dir. TBA
Insinööriliitto / Harju Group / 2023 – dir. Juho Konstig
Valio / TBWA / 2023 – dir. Ragnar Jansson

AS A CASTING ASSISTANT

S-pankki / Pictures Helsinki / 2023 – dir. Pekka Hara – background casting
Atria / Lucy Loves Stories / 2023 – dir. Johannes Salonen

Besides these productions Sini has worked on the following short films as a part of her BA studies:

Rakkauden juhla / Metropolia School of Applied Sciences / 2023 – dir. Senni Lätti – 1st Assistant Director
Kosketus / ELO Film School / 2023 – dir. Gyöngyi Fazekas – Make Up & Hair Designer
ASAP / ELO Film School / 2023 – dir. Hannu-Pekka Peltomaa – Make Up & Hair Designer
Tikkari / ELO Film School / 2023 – dir. Sameli Muurimäki – Make Up & Hair Designer

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