Johanna Vuoksenmaa

 

Director
Vuoksenmaa (born in 1966) is a Finnish director and screenwriter. She studied photography at the Design Institute Lahti and later directing at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki.
She made the short film Taivas tiellä (True Love Waits, 2000) and worked as a co-screenwrter and/or director on several series (Siperian Nero!, 2000; Vaimonsa mies, 2001; Paristo, 2002; Kumman Kaa, 2003; Tie Edeniin, 2003; Tahdon asia, 2005). The black comedy Nousukausi (Upswing, 2003) is her only feature film that in 2004 won the Jussi award for best film, screenplay and music.

Filmography


Films by this director

Upswing

(Nousukausi, 2003)

Directed by: Johanna Vuoksenmaa
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peter Flinckenberg
Synopsis:

This is a comedy about a married couple who decides to take a rather strange vacation. While their friends go to exotic locations, Janne and Katri, successful and well-off business people, decide to spend their vacation in gloomy suburbs without credit cards, passports or keys to their own apartment.

color, 98 min
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