Parrasvaloelämää / The Limelight Life
Awards: Best short film & Best director of a short film - Luleå International Film Festival
Festival screenings: Bolton International Film Festival 2023 (International competition), Edinburgh Short Film Festival 2023, Montecatini International Short Film Festival 2023, Helsinki Internatinal Film Festival 2022 (Finnish Competition), Luleå International Film Festival, Neito Festival 2023, Järvi Kino Festival 2023, Short Stop International Film Festival 2023.
SYNOPSIS
Alma is a reality tv show host sick of her job and her life. She's lost her grip on her work and gets the last chance from her producer to go with her film crew and find out what has happened to a celeb, who wet himself on a live tv dance show. As the filming day grows longer, things start to get strange turns and Alma starts to realise something about her life and profession she has not realised before.
The Limelight Life is a film about the sometimes absurd need to be seen and loved that we humans have in common.
2022, fiction, 20 min.
Starring: Alma Pöysti, Lauri Maijala, Elias Westerberg, Juha Uutela & Anna-Maija Heinonen
Directed & written by: Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
Produced by: Eveliina Kantola
Cinematography by: Nikté Teleguario Marín
Edited by: Saara Välimäki
Sound design by: Niklas Jussila, Marta Anderson
Production design by: Fiona Geary
Teaser trailer
