Joonas Makkonen
Directing
Biography
No biography available for Joonas Makkonen.
Born: May 13, 1986
Place of Birth: Vieremä, Finland
Known For
Renewing Mikael
Mikael hears that he has only six months to live. He decides that he will look good at the coffin.
Jari's Odyssey
A camera man follows actor Jari Manninen's journey to his movie premiere. Some things you should NEVER film.
Dracula
When a 15th-century prince’s wife is brutally murdered, he renounces God and damns heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, he is reborn as Dracula–an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.
Lapland Odyssey
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Garbage Prince
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
Silence
A drama between people under unconventional circumstances. In the Second World War Finland was the only nation who brought casualties killed-in-action back to be buried at home. These actions were carried out by men and women working in assembly centres near enemy lines. Silence is a story of a group of people in a limbo between life and death, in a mental no-man's- land, where heaven and hell, horror and joy, love and fear touch each other.
Bunny the Killer Thing
A group of Finnish and British people get stuck to a cabin when a creature which is a half human, half rabbit, attacks on them. The creature is Bunny the Killer Thing, and it is after anything that is resembling female genitals.
VICIOUS
VICIOUS is the debut short film from independent director Nella Tirkkonen. Based out of Helsinki, the city is also the backdrop for this slice-of-life story, following a night of drinking in a small dive bar.
Filmography
as Romanian Soldier
as Portsari
as Joonas Makkonen
as Hillbilly
as Man at the Funeral
as Kuollut sotilas
as Körri's banger
as Mies baarissa (uncredited)