Biography

Selma Vilhunen is an Academy Award nominated director and screenwriter of both fiction and documentary films. She is also one of the founders of the production company Tuffi Films. Her latest film Stupid Young Heart won the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019. Her feature documentary Hobbyhorse Revolution won the Best Documentary Film Prize at the Finnish National Film Awards (Jussi Awards) and got nominated for the European Film Academy's Young Audience Award in 2018.

Vilhunen's feature debut Little Wing premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 and won the Golden Camera Taodue Award for best first or second feature at the Rome Film Festival 2016. The film has also received the Nordic Council Film Prize in 2017. Previously she has directed the short film Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? which received an Oscar nomination in 2014, as well as the feature documentaries Song (2014) and Pony Girls (2008).
- IMDb mini biography by: Tuffi Films