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Waltteri Vanhanen

Film Editor

Phone +358444936870

Email vanhanenwaltteri@gmail.com
Based
 London & Helsinki

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ABOUT

Waltteri Vanhanen is a Finnish film editor born in 1990. He began by producing and editing music videos and directing two short documentaries Riding Waves of Winter Gloom & Dog Days. In 2015 he moved to Copenhagen to join Final Cut for Real and worked there as an assistant editor on several films, including Oscar nominated Strong Island, and FLEE. In 2017 Waltteri, together with Janus Billeskov Jansen, edited his first feature length documentary Angels Are Made of Light, which premiered at TIFF. In 2019 Waltteri moved to London for a Master's degree in film editing at The National Film and Television School. He graduated in 2021 and has since edited a feature documentary The New Greatness Case, been an assembly editor on Drift, and an assistant editor on Sebastian, among other shorter projects. He splits most of his working time between Helsinki and London.

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EDITING WORK




 

2024

Paternal Advice 12 min

dir. Lisa Clarkson (short)

Not yet released

2022

The New Greatness Case 1h 32 min

dir. Anna Shishova (feature documentary)

Zurich Film Festival - Best International Documentary

2023

Lasi Shamppanjaa  12 min

dir. Mikko Manninen (short)

Not yet released

2021

Muse 45 min

dir. Lisa Clarkson (short)

Released on Directors Notes

2021

Melting Dreams 54 min

dir. Haidy Kancler
(TV version editor)

2021

Fireworks - Behind The Scenes 25min (5 episodes)

dir. Gardar Thor Thorkelsson
(Behind the scenes documentary)

2021

Last Orders 23 min

dir. Hannah Skolnick (short documentary)

NFTS Production, not yet released

2020

Secrets of the Salamanders 27 min

dir. Madelaine Westwood

Premiered at Wildlife Conservation Film Festival

2020

An Angel Walked Through the Room 24 min

dir. Aleksander Brask (short documentary)

NFTS Production, not yet released

2020

Mute Milton 17 min

dir. Lisa Clarkson (short)

NFTS Production, not yet released

2020

Waves 16 min

dir. Margarita Milne (short)

In The Palace IFF 2021 - Student Competition selection

2018

Angels Are Made of Light 127 min

dir. James Longley (feature documentary)

Camden International Film Festival - Harrell Award 

Premiered at TIFF, Telluride, NYFF

2018

Camila Fuchs - One on One Music Video

Album: Heart Pressed Between Stones (2018)

2016

The Hand That Guides 17 min

dir. Ömer Sami (short documentary)

2013

Dog Days 53 min

director and editor: Waltteri Vanhanen (with Janne Vartia)

Not released.

2012

Riding Waves of Winter Gloom 10 min

director and editor: Waltteri Vanhanen (with Janne Vartia)

Madswell Surf Film Festival - Best Emerging Talent

ASSEMBLY & ASSISTANT EDITOR WORK

2023

Sebastian 1h 50 min

dir. Mikko Makela (drama)

Assistant Editor

2022

Drift 1h 33 min

dir. Anthony Chen (drama)
Assembly editor & 1st assistant editor

2021

Flee 1h 29 min

dir. Jonas Poher Rasmussen (animated documentary)

Assistant editor

2021

President 2h 

dir. Camilla Nielssen (documentary)

Assistant editor

2021

Sisterhood 1h 12 min 

dir. Sessy Kamara (documentary)

Editing consultant

2021

Our Memory Belongs To Us 1h 33 min

dir. Rami Farah (documentary)
Assistant editor

2020

Songs of Repression 1h 28 min

dir. Marianne Hougen-Moraga, Estephan Wagner (documentary)

Assistant editor

2019

A Comedian in a Syrian Tragedy 1h 35 min

dir. Rami Farah (documentary)
Assistant editor

2019

Forget Me Not 1h 26 min

dir. Sun Hee Englestoft (documentary)

Assistant editor

2018

What Walaa Wants 1h 29 min

dir. Christy Garland (documentary)

Assistant editor

2017

Transformations 1h 33 min

dir. Camilla Magid (documentary)

Assistant editor

2017

Strong Island 1h 47 min

dir. Yance Ford (documentary)

Assistant editor

EDUCATION

2019 - 2021

The National Film and Television School

MA in Film Editing

2014

London Film Academy

Documentary Film Making in the UK & Europe - Short Course

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