About Susanna Salonen
Born 1966. Susanna Salonen is a Finnish film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and director.
Susanna Salonen is a Finnish-German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born in 1966 in Finland, Salonen grew up in Lübeck and trained as a camerawoman in Berlin. She has shot several award-winning documentaries, and written and directed fiction films. Her fiction debut Patong Girl won the prestigious German Grimme award in 2016. Salonen is a member of the German film academy.
In 2020, she filmed in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC Expedition on German research-icebreaker Polarstern for the international documentary Arctic Drift on climate change research in the Arctic.
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Who is Susanna Salonen?
Finnish film director
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Susanna Salonen was born in 1966 in Lahti.
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Susanna Salonen is a film director, screenwriter, cinematographer and director.
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Susanna Salonen is Finnish.
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