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C.V. of Heikki Kujanpää
Heikki Kujanpää studied at the University of Helsinki, then later at the Finnish Drama Academy. He continued his studies in screenwriting at the Drama Academy and film making at the University of Art and Design in the Department of Film and Television.Heikki Kujanpää is one of the founders of Q-theatre (Helsinki), where he’s been acting, directing and writing since 1990. He has taken parts as an actor, a screenplay writer and a director in various projects in theatre, opera, cinema and television. He has acted major roles in theatre and TV-films and directed fiction and documentary films.
For his films A Small Pilgrimage and The Icebreaker he has won international prizes as a film director (among them the Grand Prix in Laon international filmfestival at 2000, the first prize in Tampere international Film Festival at 2000). Kujanpää is one of the founders of Helsinki Film-factory.
Heikki Kujanpää has written two radio plays and five stage plays, one of them, “Mannens 2 drifter” translated in Swedish, and “Falling Angels” translated in english.
Kujanpää has worked at Finnish Radio Theatre as a dramaturgist and a director, directing various Radio plays. He has also worked as a teacher, teaching actor students at the Finnish Drama Academy and teaching acting, directing and screen writing at other schools.
For the years 2001-2003 Kujanpää worked as a director general at the City Theatre of Kuopio. At the moment he is living in Karkkila working as a freelance director, writer and actor in various projects.
Some of Kujanpää´s latest works:
TV-film Christmas Tree Thieves, 2009, director
TV-series Beginning of the End, 2009, director
Feature Film Falling Angels, 2008, director and co-scriptwriter
Death of a Salesman, 2007, director and co-author, play in Q-theatre
Tv-series President of the Republic, political satire, 2007, main character
Tv-series Agricola, 2006, director and actor
Hypocondriac (a play by Moliere), 2005, director and the main character, Turku City Theatre
Falling Angels, 2005 director and co-author, play in Q-theatre
Director of a radio play How to Love a Woman? (by M. Linnavuori, based on a cartoon published in Helsingin Sanomat), 2004