Funny-Films Oy was a Finnish film

production company A production company, production house or production studio is a studio that creates works in the fields of performing arts, new media art, film, television show, television, radio, comics, interactive arts, video games, websites, music, and video ...

established by

Spede Pasanen Pertti Olavi "Spede" Pasanen (10 April 1930 – 7 September 2001) was a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, and inventor, who has been called an "all-around entertainer". During his career he directed, wrote, produced or acted in ...

Information

The company produced three

Uuno Turhapuro Uuno Turhapuro is a Finnish comedy character and antihero created by Spede Pasanen and played by Vesa-Matti Loiri. Originally appearing in ''Spede Show'' during 1971–1973, the character gained popularity through the Uuno Turhapuro films. Hi ...

films and a few other Spede films in 1976, 1979–1981 and 1986. Pasanen sold Funny-Films to

MTV3 MTV3 (, ) is a Finnish commercial television channel owned and operated by the media company MTV Oy, originally launched on 13 August 1957 as a programming block, becoming its own channel on 1 January 1993. It had the biggest audience share ...

, which re-established it in 1995 to produce several TV series for MTV3 and

SubTV MTV Sub (formerly TVTV!, Subtv and Sub) is a Finnish television channel owned by MTV Oy. The previous owner Alma Media sold Sub and its sister channels (MTV3, C More Max, MTV Ava Radio Nova and Sävelradio) to Swedish Bonnier and Proventus in ...

. In 2002, Funny-Films was bought by Oy Filmiteollisuus Fine Ab. Osku Pajamäki is the Managing Director of Funny-Films Oy. Funny Films Ltd. is part of the Yellow Film & TV Group, and it is Finland's largest privately owned and operated production group. Yellow Film & TV Group has other subsidiaries that include Filmiteollisuus Oy, Helsinki Film, Ten Years Production libraries of books.

Works

Funny-Films Oy is known for its productions of the following: *Television programs *Commercials *Corporate videos *Solutions for businesses and communities who want to utilize video in new media fields

References

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