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I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.