Go Catlyn Go!
Anna mennä, Catlyn!Details
A warm and spirited coming-of-age documentary about the courage to find your own voice. Catlyn (13) becomes interested in reindeer racing. Challenges mount because reindeer are wild animals, and Catlyn has been almost blind in one eye since birth.
DIRECTOR: Mervi Junkkonen
SCRIPTWRITER: Mervi Junkkonen
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vesa Taipaleenmäki
SOUND DESIGN: Svante Colérus
EDITING: Mikko Sippola, Mervi Junkkonen
MUSIC: Oliver Wegmüller
CO-PRODUCERS: Antonio Russo Merenda / Ginestra Film (Sweden)
PRODUCERS: Jouko Aaltonen, Oona Saari
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Illume
Director
Mervi Junkkonen
Mervi Junkkonen is an award-winning director and film editor. As a director, she has concentrated on documentary films and her work has been screened internationally at major festivals including IDFA, CPH:DOX, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and Tampere Film Festival. Her films include Barbeiros (2001), About a Farm (2005), After Life – Four Stories of Torture (2011) and In The Same Boat (2023). She has also established herself as an editor, receiving the Finnish Jussi Award three times, as well as a nomination for the Swedish Guldbagge Award in 2026.
Contact
Suvi Railo
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Documentary Films
• festival distribution strategy for documentary films
• travel, project and material and marketing support for documentary films
+358 9 6220 3021