{"id":45459,"date":"2023-11-07T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T08:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/?p=45459"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T09:50:41","slug":"finnish-finalist-project-for-euro-connection-2024-is-strive-by-jussi-rautaniemi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/finnish-finalist-project-for-euro-connection-2024-is-strive-by-jussi-rautaniemi\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Finalist Project for Euro Connection 2024 Is Strive by Jussi Rautaniemi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Strive<\/em>, a short film project directed and written by <\/span><b>Jussi Rautaniemi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, has been selected as Finland&#8217;s representative for the Euro Connection 2024. The project was produced by <\/span><b>Mark Lwoff<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Misha Jaari<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<a href=\"https:\/\/bufo.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bufo<\/a>) and is scheduled to premiere in spring 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a high-intensity science fiction action film with a relatable story about a young person\u2019s inability to adjust to the requirements of the surrounding world. Rautaniemi&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was also nominated last year, but now entered with a new script.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finnish nominee was decided by experts from Yle, The Finnish Film Foundation and Tampere Film Festival. The final Euro Connection representatives will be announced by a European jury at the beginning of December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Euro Connection is a European short film co-production forum where producers selected from 14 European countries have the opportunity to present their projects to production companies, financiers and broadcasters, as well as to participate in networking events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event will take place from <strong>6 to 7 February 2024<\/strong> at the Short Film Market in Clermont-Ferrand with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA and PROCIREP. The call for Finnish productions for the Euro Connection was made through Tampere Film Festival in autumn 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clermont-filmfest.org\/en\/short-film-market\/euro-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read more about Euro Connection on the event&#8217;s website.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strive, a short film project directed and written by Jussi Rautaniemi, has been selected as Finland&#8217;s representative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[64,62],"class_list":["post-45459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-en","category-press-release","tag-euro-connection-en","tag-short-film"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45459"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56979,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions\/56979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamperefilmfestival.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}