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Heta Jäälinoja

Heta Jäälinoja

area: Animation

Heta Jäälinoja, Drawing, 2025

Heta Jäälinoja, Drawing, 2025

Heta Jäälinoja, Cyanotype, 2018

Heta Jäälinoja, Cyanotype, 2018

Heta Jäälinoja, Still from Nun or Never, 2023

Key Facts

nationality

Finland

area

Animation

residence

Lapinjärvi

recommending institution

Tricky Women / Tricky Realities

time period

March 2025 - May 2025

Heta Jäälinoja (b. 1989, Finland) is an independent animation director and illustrator. Her main focus is in drawing animation. She studied animation in Turku Arts Academy and Estonian Academy of Arts. Her animated short films like Penelope (Estonian Academy of Arts, 2016) and Nun or Never! (Böhle Studios, 2023) have been widely screened and awarded in festivals around the world. Heta teaches and mentors animation students in Finland, Estonia, Sweden and Norway. Aside from film making, she is a cooking and printmaking enthusiast. Heta works with simple yet expressive pencil lines in both still and moving images. Usually the first fast drawings become the final compositions and characters. They have a lightness that’s hard to achieve by conscious planning. In filmmaking Heta is interested in rhythm and conveying the atmosphere of small moments. She tries to find humour and comfort in imperfection and disappointments. She’s balancing between coherent narrative structures and a feeling-based, intuitive approach.

Filmography

Nun or Never (2023)
Penelope (2016)
Love Hurts (2015)
Omelette (2013)
My Baby Don’t Love Me (2012)

Project info

In the MQ residency offered by Tricky Women scholarship Heta is mostly looking to be inspired by a new place, space, people, textures and sounds. On top of animating Tricky Women’s next year’s trailer in the residency, she wants to take advantage of the possibility to work without having a detailed plan or script. She wants to gather and filter material and see what unfolds.

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