Anna Heinämaa

Anna Heinämaa is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who writes both for adults and young people. She created the original script for “The Fencer” (2015) which made the Oscar-shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award; her next film “One Last Deal” (2018) premiered at TIFF in the prestigious Contemporary World Cinema lineup. Both films were distributed worldwide and screened in numerous festivals. Heinämaa’s latest work is a feelgood comedy “The Second Act” which she co-wrote with writer-actress Vera Kiiskinen. The film premiered in February 2023 in Stockholm, starring Lena Olin and Rolf Lassgård and was one of the most successful local films of the year at the Swedish box office.