Olli Koivula is a Helsinki based director and screenwriter. His debut Finnish TV show about aspiring battle rappers ”Savela” was one of the most successful TV shows of the year and gained three seasons all together which is the max amount of seasons for Finland’s national broadcast company YLE. Koivula’s passion is watching and analyzing films and tv shows and through that create his own style of storytelling which relies heavily on both structural curiosities and intruiging dialogue.
He is very a very versatile filmmaker. Latest works in addition to directing Savela include writing for Helsinki Syndrooma (Prod. Fisher King) and shooting a road movie for director Paola Suhonen on 16mm film. All around knowledge of filmmaking makes Koivula a very confident, calm and thoughtful director.
Koivula has studied cinematography and directing in Finland and New York, where he also made his first feature film ”Full Circle”. Despite it’s microbudget the film was distributed through eOne widely in the States, iTunes, Netflix, Amazon etc.
