Jarmo Jääskeläinen

(2 August 1937 – 2 January 2022) was a Finnish journalist, producer and director of documentary films. He was known especially for his documentaries on Poland.

Career Jääskeläinen started his career in London, broadcasting for the Finnish service in the BBC World Service. From there he moved to Poland, where he studied in the Łódź Film School from 1965 on. From 1967 on he worked as the Polish correspondent for the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation YLE. When he returned to Finland, he worked as a producer and director of documentary films. At YLE, he founded the programme Dokumenttiprojekti, the slot for documentary films, and he was its head from 1990 to 1997.

Jääskeläinen included in Dokumenttiprojekti not only works of Finnish documentarists, but also those of foreign directors. YLE thus gained a strong reputation as a place to show documentaries.

Honors Jääskeläinen was awarded the State prize for dissemination of information in 1979, and DocPoint gave him their first Apollo Award in 1979. He was also awarded the Golden Venla Prize for his life work in 2011, and he was given the title of professor in 1998. He also received awards from Poland. Golden Venla, 2011