Jukka-Pekka Laakso Interview

Jukka-Pekka Laakso (born 1959) is Festival Director and President of the Board of Directors of the Tampere Film Festival, Finland. He worked for the festival already in the early 80s in an operational capacity, and has been involved with the selection and programming since 2000, taking up the directorship in 2002. As a festival director he shares responsibility for strategic planning and programming with a co-director.

Jukka-Pekka Laakso has acted as the Executive Director for the Pirkanmaa Film Centre, a local film centre in Tampere, since 1998. The film centre is a non-profit organisation which runs an art-house cinema, distributes films in Finland and works extensively in media education. He has also worked as a freelance film critic for radio and magazines.

In our interview Jukka-Pekka Laakso talks about the films that inspire him.

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