Director Miro Laiho's 30-minute short psychological horror film is produced by Blind Spot Pictures and currently in pre-production. It is part of the final thesis of Laiho, cinematographer Jaakko Tuure and film editor Ville Hakonen. It is currently applying for funding and searching for collaborators.

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Enthusiastic gamers planning their next step

Story: Emma Kiiski
Once again our beloved game club Score gave us enthusiastic students an interesting chance to meet game developers. This time the main topic was board game development and one particular game, UHKA (Threat). Special thanks to Eevi Korhonen who organized the cool event!

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Pupils of Vilpeilä village school during shootings

Story and photo: Hannu Koivuranta
The “3 minute films” which take place every year were once again very different in the ways they were produced. This applied specifically to the shortfilm “Oppitunti” and its heads of department: director Outi Hartikainen, cinematographer Hannu Koivuranta, sound designer Mikko Koskinen, gaffer Jenni Riutta and producer Joni Luomanen.

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Make Liepaja Happy performance

Arrived in Liepaja, Latvia on Tuesday for the International New Media Art Week, the iweek, of the Art Research Lab of University of Liepaja.

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Story: Janne Keränen
The film, Fall Down, written and directed by Janne Keränen has been selected to the HEdge-screenings of Bang! Short Film Festival held in Nottingham, England on 26th to 28th of November 2010. The film was made in connection with Fanni Niemi-Junkola's Film Art course in May 2010.

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Ikuinen Gallery
November 25 - December 3 2010
Liisa Ahlfors: November, installation
Open Mon-Fri 12-16
Finlaysoninkuja 3 Tampere

Welcome to the opening at Wednesday 24.11.2010 4-6 p.m!

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Story: Sabrina Seidl
45 students, 9 workshops, some tutors and organizers and an idyllic island in the North Sea were the main ingredient for the Island Creative Quarantine, an international and interactive meeting at Ameland.

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TAMK film students were successful at Kettupäivät Film Festival last week-end. Whistle While You Work by Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen won the student fiction competition, and Raven's Song by Aino Suni got a honorary mention.

Kettupäivät (Finnish for "Fox Days") is an annual Finnish short and documentary film festival in Helsinki.

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Rakennetun ajan esitys
Gallery Rajatila
Hämeenpuisto 10
19.11.2010
19–22

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Story: Nalle Mielonen
The next opportunity to see the short film Family Portrait is at Kettupäivät Film Festival at Helsinki. Family Portrait, directed by Minna Korhonen and written and cinematographed by Nalle Mielonen, is one of the 3-minute short films made by the class of 2007.

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EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival, Graz November 11-13 2010

I've spent three days at the EUROPRIX Multimedia Festival in Graz with nineteen students of our Degree Programme in Media. My colleagues from universities all over Europe did frequently asked me, why does our university spend so much in travel and accommodation of the students. Is it not enough that professors travel, and report to students after-wards what happened?

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The third day was again warmer and sunnier - like a normal nice day in June in Tampere. But not exactly, the trees are all naked. Pretty challenging to go inside to listen to key notes. But it was a good decision to go inside anyway.

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Joanneum open learning environment on top floor

The first morning in Graz was sunny and warm, so we walked to FH Joanneum which is close to Europa Plaz, where our hotel is. Joanneum was the venue of the Academic Network Conference, our main activity yesterday, but we made an early start to do a tour at Joanneum hosted by Paul Pivec and International koordinator Michaela Bernreiter.

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Yesterday 19 09IMPs and one programme leader came to Graz, Austria, to participate in the EUROPRIX Multimedia festival

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Outi Hartikainen directs Raimo Grönberg while cameraman Hannu Koivuranta checks the composition (Photo: Eero Alava)

The Languages Through Lenses 2010 -competition is over.

Languages Through Lenses is one of Prix Europa's film competitions. Last spring the international jury chose 15 best scripts among 100 competitors from over 18 EU countries. The chosen fifteen got a 5,000€ grant each to produce a short film from the script. The underlying theme of the competition scripts was to motivate people to learn languages and get people interested in learning more about other cultures.

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Story: Emma Kiiski
It was a dark and gloomy evening. Only a few people were walking in the rain, heading to the secret meeting place … which was filled with games, food, drinks, people and LOTS OF FUN!

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Youth as Refugees community art project has been invited to INSIDE / OUTSIDE media art exhibition showing as a part of the Arctic Fury Film Festival this weekend November 3-7.

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We will own it on Friday 5.11.2010 when 27 students will be walking around Tampere centre wearing bullet boards.

Come and write your message, glue you stickers, tag your posters or just to leave you own print.

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Testing the "Won't Stand By" workshop. Photo & Story Satu Leskinen

Island Creative Quarantine is an international, interactive meeting place between students, teachers, scientists and artists from the various partner universities from Finland, Latvia, Hungary and the Academy of Popculture in the Netherlands.

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Story: Tia Tuovinen

We IMPs take studying seriously, but other things too. In this year’s horrendous Halloween party there were mortals and immortals from six feet under as well as the seventh heaven – and everything in between.

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