An award-winning filmmaker whose films (American Vagabond, 2013, Playground, 2010, Along the Road Little Child, 2005, The Idle Ones, 2001, White Sky, 1998, and Sin, 1995) have received domestic and international recognition and awards (e.g. Jussi award, three times Best Nordic documentary Award, Special Jury Prize/Q Hugo Film Award Chicago IFF) and have been screened at many international film festivals. Helke is also a documentary film theorist and she works as a professor at the film department of Aalto University in Finland.