Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
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| Directed by | Joonas Neuvonen |
| Produced by | Jesse Fryckman Oskari Huttu |
| Written by | Joonas Neuvonen Sadri Cetinkaya |
| Screenplay by | Joonas Neuvonen |
| Starring | Jani Raappana |
| Narrated by | Jani Raappana |
| Music by | Various artists |
| Edited by | Sadri Cetinkaya |
| Distributed by | Bronson Club |
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84 minutes |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Finnish |
| Budget | €149,979 |
| Box office | $654,990 (Finland)[1] |
Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (Finnish: Reindeerspotting: pako Joulumaasta) is a Finnish documentary film about drug abusers in Rovaniemi, Finland.[2] It was directed by Joonas Neuvonen and produced by Jesse Fryckman and Oskari Huttu. The first screening of the film was in Tampere, April 2010, Finland.[3]
The documentary follows several young drug abusers, but focuses on Jani Raappana. Jani is a drug addict, whose drug of choice is Subutex taken intravenously. He is unemployed and he finances his addiction through thefts, burglaries, and welfare payments.[4]
The name of the movie is a direct allusion to the 1996 British drama film Trainspotting that treated the same theme from a Scottish point of view.
The film was shown outside of Finland for the first time in Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.
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The main character in the movie, Jani Raappana, travelled in May 2010 with Neuvonen, the director of the movie, to Cambodia. Raappana died in Phnom Penh July 7, 2010.[5] According to the local media, Raappana hanged himself.
In January 2013, the director of the film, Joonas Neuvonen, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for drug crimes.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ Box Office Mojo 2010 Finland Yearly Box Office Results, Retrieved 22 July 2011
- ^ http://www.hs.fi/english/article/New+documentary+follows+lives+of+drug+addicts+in+Rovaniemi/1135253820360
- ^ http://www.bronsonclub.com/reindeerspotting/site/info.html
- ^ http://www.hs.fi/english/article/iReindeerspottingi+examines+Rovaniemi+drug+scene+from+within/1135254464454
- ^ http://www.khmernews.com/view/foreign-man-commits-suicide-in-vallage/3071
- ^ "'Reindeerspotting' director sentenced for drug dealing". Yle Uutiset. Yle. 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2013-02-04.
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