Flatlight Films

Olympus PEN Montage

miikka — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:44:10 +0000

Here’s montage of some random footage shot with Olympus E-P2 camera with Olympus lenses. It’s nice and compact camera. Check it out here. More PEN material coming up later!

Our new client BRP Lynx !

miikka — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:56:43 +0000

We are finally happy to announce that our new client is BRP Lynx. They hired us to do their upcoming Lineup video for 2011. Last hispeed material was shot today with Olympus iSpeed and it starts to look great. Go to their website to see what to expect BRPlynx.com. Also check their Youtube channel with some great videos from previous years. Here’s also one classic.

Lappikuva

miikka — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:19:28 +0000

Here’s a website of photographer Jani Kärppä, Lappikuva. It’s all in finnish but worth to check out anyways. Great northern lights for example. It busy week with lot of editing going on but wait for new videos coming up soon.

New background

miikka — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:20:45 +0000

It’s time to update our background image. This time it’s night sky in our home city Rovaniemi, Finland. Photo taken by Teemu Lahtinen.
Check out his website and flickr. New videos and updates coming constantly so stay tuned!
Here’s another pic by Teemu from the same trip.

Olympus Hotair Balloon flying over Rovaniemi, Finland

miikka — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:07:55 +0000

Olympus hotair balloon flew yesterday over Rovaniemi, Finland. Thanks to Olympus Finland and Ilkka Korhonen for the ride. Here’s few photos by Anssi Jokiranta. Video from the air coming soon!

New Olympus i-Speed 3 making of pictures

miikka — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:07:40 +0000

Olympus just released a press release of our partnership. You can see it from here.

Fire Art -hispeed shortfilm

miikka — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:08:32 +0000

Hispeed shortfilm shot on Olympus iSpeed 3
More hispeed material coming up!

Olympus iSpeed 3 making of

miikka — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:28:23 +0000

Kind people in Olympus Finland send us this awesome camera to test use.
It was still a lot of testing but it worked great. Here’s few making of shots taken by Teemu Lahtinen.

Video coming soon!

Finnish snowboarding documentary The Scrapbook Project gets rewarded in Mountain Film Festival.

miikka — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:24:13 +0000

PRESS RELEASE 03.02.2010

Finnish snowboarding documentary The Scrapbook
Project gets rewarded in Mountain Film Festival.

A snowboarding documentary directed by Miikka Niemi will be
rewarded as the best Action Sports Film on 26th of February in
Mammoth Lake, California.

” It is great that long work of many people with the Scrapbook Project gets recognition through
this kind of reward. It´s over a year since the film came out and it has opened many good
opportunities for myself and my production company Flatlight Films. I believe that this film has
brought good things for its viewers and also for the whole production team as later achievements
and works. “ says Miikka Niemi, the director of The Scrapbook Project.

The Scrapbook Project is produced by Henri Salokangas from HDP Films and
directed by Miikka Niemi from Flatlight Films. The film was also made by Assistant
Director Juuso Paloniemi and Art Director Teemu Lahtinen. With its 400 000 dvd
copies, The Scrapbook Project is one of the largest snowboarding films ever
distributed.

More information:

Miikka Niemi / Flatlight Films, phone +358 50 577 0347, miikka@flatlightfilms.com

Seth Jones / Mountain Film Festival, info@mountainfilmfestival.com

Flatlight Films is a film production company based in Finnish Lapland. It produces and films
commercials, short films, documentaries and snowboarding films.

Peetu Piiroinen’s part from The Scrapbook Project

miikka — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:44:47 +0000

Peetu is going to Olympics. Going to be exciting competition!