Minttu Maari Mäntynen

Documentaries

OFFSHORE

2021. Dir/Prod Hazel Falck. Website

The Butterfly

2015. As director/camera. Link in this text at  The Guardian

Voices over Water

Feature documentary (in production).

Future My Love

Feature documentary. Nominated for Michael Powell Award 2012. [UK/Sweden] Prod: Sonja Henrici & Lisbet Gabrielsson. Dir: Maja Borg

The Perfect Fit

2011. SDI/Creative Scotland/BBC Scotland.
Dir: Tali Yankelevich.Premiered at Sheffield Documentary Festival. SXGlobal Shorts Jury Award (SXSW).

No Sleep 'till Yell

2010. BBC Scotland. B-Camera
Prod: John Archer/Hopscotch Films. Dir: Brian Ross. Broadcast Spring 2011.

Pollphail

2009. [Scotland] Clarity Productions for SDI. Prod: Carina Wilson Dir: Matt Lloyd. The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival 2009, 7th CPH:DOX – nominated for NEW:VISION Award, SXSW Fillm Festival Austin, Texas.

Prayer Wheel

Short documentary for National Museum of Scotland Director/Producer: Sitar Rose

The New Ten Commandments
- Right for Asylum

2008. [Scotland] Lansdowne productions / SDI for Scottish Screen/BBC Scotland Dir: Anna Jones. Part of a feature length film in 10 episodes marking the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Broadcast December 2008.

How to Save a Fish from Drowning

2007. [US/Scotland] Dir: Kelly Neal. Bridging the Gap / SDI documentary about ice fishing and the death of white rural America. Filmed in Columbus, North Dakota. Special mention in the Short Scottish Documentary competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scottish BAFTA winner.

Arthur Balfour and Me

2007. [Scotland] Dir: Charlotte Cornic. G-Mac / Scottish Screen / BBC. Short documentary about the effect of the Arthur Balfour Declaration to the life of one Palestinian woman.

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

2007. [UK] Dir: Faisal Aziz. Bona Broadcasting SDI/Scottish Screen. Screened at Hotdocs 2008.

Look at Lucia

2006. [Sweden/Scotland] 52min. Dir: Maja Borg. Feature documentary about the Lucia tradition, small town Sweden and the darkest night of the year. Screened at Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival.

A Difficult Case

2005. [Scotland] Teebster for SDI / Scottish Screen / Skillset. Dir: Alice Nelson. Shortlisted for the Saltire Award.

Women in Black

2004. [Scotland] Shared credit with Scott Ward. TV documentary [25min]. Dir: Nick Higgins. Skyline Productions for STV (This Scotland). Selected to open the new Nobel Peace Foundation, DOXA film Festival, Women’s Peace Festival in Israel. Theatrical release in UK June 05 - Docspace Peace season.

Then and Now

2003. [Scotland] 2nd camera. TV documentary [25min]. Video in Pilton for STV (This Scotland). Dir: Anna Jones.

Desert

2000. experimental documentary.

Aphelion

1999. experimental documentary.