Merja Ritola
Producer
Since 2000 Ritola has been working on over 45 titles (among them Iron Sky, Jade Warrior, Man’s Job) and more than 24 out of them as a producer. During her career she has participated in EAVE and EWA workshops and since 2012 she has been an independent producer for short films, documentaries and fiction features. 2017 she joined at Greenlit Productions, established by producer Essi Haukkamaa-Judge. 2024 she became a member of the EFA.
Ritola’s productions include the feature documentary The Seamstress by Ville Suhonen, which won 2016 a Jussi Award for the Best Documentary Film and the award-winning documentary film Putting Lipstick on a Pig by Johan Karrento, the internationally acclaimed feature documentary The Voice of Sokurov by Leena Kilpeläinen and nationally acclaimed science-fiction feature Apeiron by Maria Ruotsala.
2021 she has completed with a feature documentary about the legendary Finnish print designer Maija Isola and minor co-productions with a fiction feature Deserted by Kadri Kõusaar (Estonia), a short film A Wish Upon a Satellite by Leeni Linna (Estonia) and internationally acclaimed feature documentary The Other Side of the River by Antonia Kilian (Germany). Currently she is in production with Lex Julia written and directed by Laura Hyppönen and a Polish minor co-production The Seal Mother written and directed by Aga Trosz and developing several fiction features (Propaganda Man, Northern Lights), a feature documentary (Elin Danielson Gambogi – A Portrait of a Woman) and YOE by Fabiano D’Amato, two minor co-productions and a hybrid documentary tv-series (Remarkable Women - Out of The Shadows).
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