
POST-PRODUCTION GRANT PROGRAM 2025
Jani Pösö
screenwriter and producer, Finland
Jani Pösö, the CEO of It’s Alive Films, is a producer and screenwriter. He wrote and produced his first theatre play in 1996, first short film in 2006 and feature in 2011 and first book in 2018. He co-founded It’s Alive Films with Teemu Nikki 13 years ago. He has produced eight feature films and four TV-series, all of them internationally acclaimed. He is also behind It’s Alive Films’ multi-remade TV-format Mental. He is best known for The Blind Man Who did not want to see Titanic (Audience award in Venice Film festival 2021), Mister 8 (Best series Cannes Series 2021), and short film All Inclusive (Cannes competition 2019). His latest published feature film 100 Litres of Gold is currently in cinemas and his next TV-series Dorm No. 13 will premier in late April 2025. His company, It’s Alive Films, is known for distinguished style, and strong ethics. All It’s Alive Films’ productions are comedies or entertaining takes on something deadly serious.
