Joonas Makkonen
Joonas Makkonen is a Finnish director & screenwriter living in Sotkamo, located in Region of Kainuu, East part of Finland. He was born in 13th of May 1986 in Iisalmi, Finland, and he lived his childhood in a village called Vieremä.
Makkonen made his debut as a feature film director with horror-comedy Bunny the Killer Thing in 2015. As his second feature film he wrote and directed post-apocalyptic action film Gravedigger and the Random People, which will be released in 2022. At the summer 2021 he was filming his third feature film, a comedy-drama road movie called Johannes ei kulje Jämsän kautta. Its title could be translated as "Johannes will not go via Jämsä city". It is Makkonen's first fully Finnish language feature film. Among the features Makkonen has directed various short films and TV ads.