Merja Ritola

Since 2000 Merja Ritola has been working on 44 titles (among them Iron Sky, Jade Warrior, Man's Job) and 24 out of them as a producer. 2017 she joined at Greenlit Productions, established by producer Essi Haukkamaa. Greenlit's first feature documentary film War/Peace directed by Inderjit Kaur Khalsa was premiered at Espoo Ciné 2017. 2021 she has completed four co-productions, a feature documentary The Other Side of the River, a short film A Wish Upon a Satellite and a fiction feature Deserted and a feature documentary about the Marimekko's legendary print designer Maija Isola. Ritola's productions include also the feature documentary The Seamstress by Ville Suhonen, which won 2016 a Jussi Award for the Best Documentary Film and the award-winning documentary film Putting Lipstick on a Pig by Johan Karrento, the internationally acclaimed feature documentary The Voice of Sokurov by Leena Kilpeläinen and nationally acclaimed science-fiction feature Apeiron by Maria Ruotsala.