{"id":766,"date":"2021-08-29T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espoocine.fi\/2021\/08\/paula-vesala-receives-the-first-ever-espoo-cine-award\/"},"modified":"2021-08-29T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T00:00:00","slug":"paula-vesala-receives-the-first-ever-espoo-cine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espoocine.fi\/en\/2021\/08\/paula-vesala-receives-the-first-ever-espoo-cine-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Vesala receives the first ever Espoo Cin\u00e9 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The 32nd Espoo Cin\u00e9 International Film Festival finished on Sunday, August 29 with an award show, in which Paula Vesala received the festival&#8217;s titular award.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After bringing quality European films to cinemas for over 30 years, Espoo Cin\u00e9 founded the festival&#8217;s titular award this year. The award is given annually to an agent who advances the Finnish film culture toward a diverse European point of view. The award is worth 1000 \u20ac. In the first year, the jury consists of the members of the Espoo Cin\u00e9 board.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Espoo Cin\u00e9 award was presented at the sold-out screening of the festival&#8217;s closing film <em>Herself <\/em>in Kino Tapiola on Sunday, August 29. The award was given to <strong>Paula Vesala<\/strong>,<strong><\/strong>and it was presented by <strong>Alma P\u00f6ysti<\/strong>. The award show can be viewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/espoocine\/videos\/917236242475051\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Espoo Cin\u00e9&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The award honors the values, which have guided the festival and its programme from the start,&#8221; tells Espoo Cin\u00e9&#8217;s Chairman of the Board, <strong>Timo Kuismin<\/strong>. &#8220;Advancing film culture is currently facing a particularly diverse challenge, not only in Europe, but also worldwide. The fight against the pandemic with its limitations and uncertainties harms art and culture events in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The jury describes Vesala as a tireless defender of film culture throughout the pandemic and the unjust guidelines and limitations. She is also an inspiring example of diversity that crosses the borders of art forms: she rose to fame as a rock musician, but has a degree in dramaturgy. She has been awarded for her lyrics with both Juha Vainio and Reino Helismaa awards. To film audiences, she is familiar as a sensitive actor, nominated for a Jussi award for her role in <strong>Selma Vilhunen&#8217;s<\/strong><em>Little Wing \u2013 <\/em>and also recently impressing in <strong>Jenni Toivoniemi&#8217;s<\/strong><em>Games People Play<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Image: Camilla Hanhirova<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 32nd Espoo Cin\u00e9 International Film Festival finishes on Sunday, August 29 with an award show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paula Vesala receives the first ever Espoo Cin\u00e9 Award - 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