Jarvilaturi's last picture Spy Games/History Is Made at Night starring Bill Pullman and Irène Jacob for Nik Powell and Stephen Woolley's Scala Productions premiered as a special presentation at the Toronto Film Festival, and is distributed in the U.S. by Lions Gate and overseas by J&M Entertainment. The writer/director is now immersed in preparations for his new feature Kiss, His First.

Jarvilaturi won the Fassbinder Prize at Mannheim and a Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki for his U.S./Estonian actioner City Unplugged. The film was sold to some 30 countries around the world; and was recently selected as #2 after Silence of the Lambs on the London Times list of Best Crime Movies.

Jarvilaturi's first feature Homebound screened at the MoMA New Directors New Films series; won the Nordic Film Prize for the Best Scandinavian Feature of 1990; the Grand prix du public in Belfort, France, and Best Feature Film at the Salzburg FilmSZENE.

Jarvilaturi studied contemporary literature and acting in Helsinki before earning an MFA in film directing. He is a member of the European Film Academy.

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