THE DIRECTORS

Filmmakers. Digital creators. Storytellers.

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Cristina Ornellas

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Maila-Kaarina Rantanen

When two Brazil-born digital creators and metalheads meet coincidently in Helsinki, they decide to accomplish a project to enter the history of heavy metal: the first documentary film ever made to show the world how Finland became the most metal country in the planet. This is what A Heavy Metal Civilization is.

Cristina is a Brazilian photographer & multimedia journalist. Born in Espirito Santo, she was raised in Niteroi city most of her life, before moving to Finland in 2013.

Maila is a Finnish/Brazilian musician and digital creator, Born in Rio de Janeiro, she has a Finnish father and a Brazilian/German mother. Maila grew up in the middle of Finnish and Brazilian cultures, and moved permanently to Finland in 2009.