Jukka-Pekka Laakso

Jury Member

Jukka-Pekka Laakso is the festival director of the Tampere Film Festival, where he has been involved with the selection and programming since 2000. As a festival director, heshares the responsibility of strategic planning and programming with a co- director. Additionally, Laakso has been a member of more than 50 juries in film festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Locarno Film Festival, Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, and the Morelia International Film Festival in Mexico. Laakso acts as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre; a local film center in Tampere. Pirkanmaa is a non-profit organization that runs an art-house cinema, distributes films in Finland, and works extensively with media education. Jukka-Pekka Laakso is also a member of the European Film Academy.

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