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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 his upcoming features The Innocents and The Futurists.
Jarvilaturi won the Fassbinder Prize at Mannheim and a Silver
Alexander in Thessaloniki for his U.S./Estonian actioner City
Unplugged (aka. as Darkness in
Tallinn). After successful runs in many European countries it opened to critical
success in New York in June '95 and went on to became an arthouse favorite in
numerous other cities.
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 founded Upstream Pictures
1991. He is a member of
the European Film Academy.
RESUME: full
resume in printable Acrobat format is here;and
a short BIO here.
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