Annaleena Piel Linnå

Annaleena Piel Linnå is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist living in London. She studied film at London College of Printing (UAL), following that with an MA in feminist politics and philosophy at Birkbeck College. Her fiction debut "The Undertaker" (2005) garnered many awards from the international festival circuit, most notably winning Golden Bear at the Ebensee Festival and earning a Seal of Excellence as a finalist at the Boston Motion Picture Awards. Based on its success, Annaleena was voted winner of Media Directions' Emerging Female Filmmaker Competition held in partnership with Sony and Pinewood Studios. In 2007, she was chosen to participate at Berlinale Talent Campus. 2010 saw the release of "Bye Bye Butty," a 52minute observational documentary. In 2018, Annaleena completed her first feature-length documentary, a historical biopic about sculptor Dora Gordine. The project participated in Baltic Sea Docs co-financing forum and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival's Ex Oriente development workshop. In 2021 In November 2021, she finished "Dorich" - a documentary commissioned by Dorich House Museum and made possible by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. The film is now on display at the museum as part of their permanent collection. (2023) Annaleena is developing a dark comedy to be shot in Finland and an animated feature drama about the 1890s sisterhood of first-ever pro cyclists.