Ulla Simonen

Ulla Simonen has worn different hats in the field of filmmaking since the mid-nineties; now the director of AVEK - Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture in Finland. Before the current position she was producer and partner in the Helsinki based company MADE, originally educated as film editor, she has produced over 50 titles, shorts, features, both fiction and documentary. Ulla has tutored for Berlinale talents since 2008 as well as many other talent development and training programs, such as Dok.Incubator, Docs by the Sea and Generation Africa as the last ones.

She has worked also as a commissioner for short films and documentaries and as the artistic director of DocPoint Festival in Helsinki.

In her work, be it producing or tutoring she is dedicated to find the film-makers vision and to find ways how to enhance and support that vision.

When not working on film she is a gardener, beekeeper, knitter and passionate on various sports.