Copywriters and podcasters Essi Pulkkinen and Jukka Ahola worked as a pre-selection jury in Northern Script competition in 2018. They red all the scripts and chose the best scripts and writers to take part in the second round of the competition. They made an extra effort to make sure that all the scripts were judged as
Kirsikka Saari named in Northern Script jury
Kirsikka Saari is a screenwriter and a director based in Helsinki. She was Oscar-nominated for the short film Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?. She has written a script for a feature film Stupid Young Heart (dir. Selma Vilhunen), which won the Crystal Bear in the Berlinale 2019. She has written many scripts
Northern Script has named first jury member – Mikko Peltotupa is the winner of Northern Script 2017
Northern Script jury member Mikko Peltotupa is the winner of Northern Script 2017. Nowadays he is studying screenwriting at the Aalto University in Helsinki. He has worked as a copywriter, journalist and as a packer in a cheese factory. At the moment he is working with a short film about a teddy bear suffering insomnia.
Winner of Northern Script 2018 – Juuso Kuusisto’s thoughts about competition
A short summary in English: Juuso Kuusisto won Northern Script competition in 2018. Nowadays he works in the film industry and he dreams of writing and directing his own feature film someday. Through Northern Script competition Juuso met many great people. He thinks that probably the best sauna in the world is in Oulu, Finland.