Myllylä
Details
Mika Myllylä was a national icon and Olympic hero whose fall from grace shook Finland. Through decades of home videos, a deeply personal story unfolds — of love, pressure, shame, and the cost of greatness.
DIRECTOR: Sean Ricks
CO-DIRECTORS: Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
CO-PRODUCERS: Tobias Janson, Melissa Lindgren / Story Ab (Sweden); Benedikte Bredesen / f(x) produksjoner AS (Norway)
PRODUCER: Pasi Hakkio
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Wacky Tie Films
Director
Sean Ricks
Sean Ricks is a Finnish filmmaker, writer, journalist, and presenter widely known in Finland as the host of the long-running current affairs program Perjantai. He has written, directed and starred in several short documentaries for the Finnish public broadcaster Yle. Myllylä is his debut as a feature film director. In 2023, Ricks was awarded by the Finnish Federation of Settlement Houses for his long body of work that values interviewees and a constructive culture of public debate, stating that it "adds understanding to the spectrum of human life, which is not black or white, but involves all colors and shades."
Contact
Suvi Railo
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Documentary Films
• festival distribution strategy for documentary films
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