Anna Heinämaa is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, and novelist. She created the original script for The Fencer (2015), which made the Oscar-shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015 and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award the same year. Her next film One Last Deal (2018) premiered at TIFF in the Contemporary World Cinema lineup. Both films were distributed worldwide and screened in numerous festivals. Heinämaa's latest work is a feelgood comedy The Second Act, which she co-wrote with writer-actress Vera Kiiskinen. The film will premiere in the autumn of 2022, starring Lena Olin and Rolf Lassgård.

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Anna Heinämaa

Writer

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