Jukka-Pekka Laakso

Jukka-Pekka Laakso is festival director of Tampere Film Festival since 2002. As a festival director he shares the responsibility to strategic planning and programming with a co-director. He has been a member of more than 70 juries in various film festivals.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso acts also as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre in Tampere. The film centre is a non-profit organisation that runs an art-house cinema, distributes films in Finland and works extensively with media education.