Movie and documentary production company located in Helsinki.
Currently we are looking for distributors globally.
Our target is Theatrical, Free to Air Terrestial / broadcast TV, Pay TV but we are open for discussions about S-VOD, A-VOD, T-VOD, EST and Transport licenses. We can sell regional exclusive licenses, but you have to contact us fast.
Read more about film itself: https://www.darkplanetfilms.eu/films-police-crimes/
View trailer:
More information later, stay tuned.
We received Honorable Mention from Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival.
Quote from email:
An HONORABLE MENTION (aka SPECIAL MENTION) does not apply to a certain category but celebrates your work as whole.
This is our second biggest distinction and it is because you were very close on winning.
Watch Friday Gone Wrong short film:
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Ex-police officer, Joakim Lindholm, exposes crimes committed by members of the Finnish Police Force. No policeman or policewoman has ever revealed these stories to the public before, due to fear of having their employment terminated or other problems. However, Joakim puts himself into the game and he has nothing to loose!
200.000 individual visitors have visited his blog pages “Poliisien Rikokset” (“Crimes by Police”) over 1.000.000 times. Huge numbers for a blog written in Finnish, considering the number of Finnish speaking people worldwide is only approximately 5.000.000. You can find his blog here: https://poliisirikokset.wordpress.com/ (in Finnish only)
Dark Planet Films has mustered up the courage to put Joakim’s story on film and Director Janne, being a brutal storyteller who never whitewashes horrible, ugly, heavy stories, now brings the brutality of this story right in your face!
Joakim’s interview will be spoken in Finnish (with English subtitles), but all roles will be played in English.
The story is a true story and all scenes will involve cases now under investigation -naturally by police themselves – with evidence. There will be no rumors told. The documentary will include extremely harsh footage, and therefore not advisable to be viewed by sensitive people.
Do you have a script on your desk waiting for someone to make a film out of? This might be your chance. We want to film 2 feature films in the near future, one written by our team and another written by somebody else. However, we cannot promise money until the film sells well, as we are very low budget production company. If your story has some dark atmosphere in a genre like horror, thriller, somehow sick, psychological, sci-fi, dystopia, etc, it would suit our production. Even comedy will work, as long as it is black 🙂 We definitely don’t make cute romantic love stories (unless most of the characters die, or turn into zombies or something).
If you are interested, DM us your synopsis (not the whole script yet as we are lazy readers, or just too busy). Tell us, too, if your story has to take place in a certain location or if it can take place anywhere. We are located in Finland, but we have some connections to various other locations where we can travel to make a film.
And, as we are low budget team, don’t send us a story if it requires an army of 1,000 men with expensive clothing, weapons, helicopters, ferries, tanks etc. We would be glad to make a massive film, but it would just not be possible to make it look good with our minimal budget. However, we are able to do a lot of tricks with a computer, we can film in a green screen studio, and rent a cottage in some scary forest, etc.
You can watch some earlier short films we have produced: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbA1D4ItxIJW3f3aEdNkPzCtHXjZ3-Xg6 (remember to subscribe to our channel)
PS. If you are not a writer, but would like to join our cast or crew, you may contact us.
Use code “X21” and get 20% discount shopwide! Code valid until the end of this year (East-European time zone). Now, exactly now on this minute, it is Winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year in Northern hemisphere. In Helsinki lenght of the day is 5 hours 49 minutes, read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice.
However we have several scenes to be shot still.
We will show you few photos now and add more later (on Twitter and Instagram there’s more already).
There’s also few short video clips available on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsHeJAdUAo&list=PLbA1D4ItxIJXFAc9mQ-cTckm0zJ3S2GCb, more to come approx. every week. These are not yet color graded nor sound mixed.
Our “In the Drains of the Mind” and “Friday Gone Wrong” short films are screened 24 hours on Paus.tv Friday September 24th 2021 starting at 6pm UK / 8pm Finnish time.
Please help us to be ranked in the Top 5 most viewed films by watching the films.
And sign up on Paus to support them too, the more sign-ups they got the better promotion we also get. You may also set up a reminder to watch these films.
Please remember to tip us via Paus to support funding our film, Capacity, which is in production and being filmed right now.
Check those out at: http://events.paus.tv/DarkPlanetFilms! Thank you!
Please share everywhere! 24 hours time to watch!
Our “In the Drains of the Mind” and “Friday Gone Wrong” short films are screened 24 hours on Paus.tv Friday September 24th 2021 starting at 6pm UK / 8pm Finnish time.
Please help us to be ranked in the Top 5 most viewed films by watching the films.
And sign up on Paus to support them too, the more sign-ups they got the better promotion we also get. You may also set up a reminder to watch these films.
Please remember to tip us via Paus to support funding our film, Capacity, which is in production and being filmed right now.
Check those out at: http://events.paus.tv/DarkPlanetFilms! Thank you!
