Loggers / Jätkät

Asko is a man, Myrsky (Storm) is a horse. During wintertime they make their living working as loggers in the small suburbian forests of the metropolitan area. The work is hard and days are long. The man and his horse only have each other as their company. Loggers is a study about cooperation between man and animal, as well as it is portraying a nearly extinct working tradition now set in the 21st century landscape.

Selma Vilhunen

Selma Vilhunen was born in 1976: She is director/scriptwriter and has graduated from the art academy of Turku technical university in 2004. Previously she has directed documentaries such as My Little Elephants (2002), a film about a Russian shepherd and a housewife, as well as Loggers(2006), a film about a logger and his horse. Vilhunen has written the scripts for two fiction films Espoon viimeinen neitsyt (Suburban virgin, 2003) and Koti-ikävä (Homesick, 2005), the latter she also co-directed with Petri Kotwica. Her latest film is Pieta (2007), a tragedy with bitter humour about becoming a human being in Helsinki. She directed and wrote the script for the film.