Can you imagine, for a second, doing anything just 'cuz you want to?
Well, that's just what I do so hooray for me... (...and fuck you!)
Bad Religion: Hooray for me
Indie Films was founded at 1991 by Arto Koskinen and Petri Rossi. Petri Rossi took a good care of the company for its first ten years until Tomi Riionheimo bought the company on August 2001. The Indie Films tradition is to produce good animations and do whatever the crew likes to do. So Indie Films is and will be just what we like.
Two of our latest productions will be screened among a good amount of fresh independent Finns animations at the biggest comic fest in germany. This is now the 3rd Finnerolle screening at this biannual festival.
At 25th May all Indie Films animations from mid 90´s to present will be screened in Babylon kino. Producer Tomi Riionheimo is there to tell about the productions. Welcome.
Jan Anderssons film from 2003 keeps on going. The next international screening is 20.5.2008 at StuStaCulum festival, Munich, Germany
Tango Finlandia will be screened on the panorama series at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, France 2008
Curse of the Remote Island got the Special prize at the Tampere Film Festival.
An Australian public service TV-channel SBS bought the 3-year rights to screen Tango Finlandia.
Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH is now taking care of Tango Finlandias teathetical-, event-, and VOD distribution in Germany, Austria and Swizerland. The film will also be published on a short film compilation.
IXth WT Os International Film Festival, Norway 2007. Jury’s Statement:
In an age where animators try to overdo each other with 3-dimensional handjobs across the line, these guys go the opposite way, presenting us with this little masterpiece of glorious 2-D. Truly original, wonderfully understated, with an exemplary correspondence between video and audio.
We have moved from Kallio to Iso Roobertinkatu at central Helsinki to live together with Stupido Records, one of the the longest standing indie record labels in Finland. Our previous co-productions are the gold selling DVD Sekoilun ytimessä by the fabulous humppa band Eläkeläiset and the Elä! DVD by the still ass-kicking grandfather of Finnish punk Pelle Miljoona.
Blue Sea Film Festival at Rauma gave us a prize! Hip hip hooray for the wise jury!
Tango Finlandia
Curse of the Remote Island
Hankerchifs for Sale
The Mangel