Research, Startups & The Creative Industries
International, multilingual and technically literate, Dmitry August Tolonen combines his background in the creative industries with experience of the startup, educational and language sectors. He has consulted and worked across industries with various sizes of teams internationally, confidently demonstrating solid organisational and problem solving skills. See ← Info for biography, education and references ·
Below, you will find a quick sample of client and personal creative work. Click on the image to enlarge it and the arrows below it to flip through the slides. Scroll down the left sidebar to find an industry you are interested in, for project details and new skills from over the years, from managerial work in education to funded projects and film industry representation.
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Dmitry August Tolonen is Northern Irish and Finnish and often works at the intersection of research, technology and the creative industries. He originally trained as a director, but has from the beginning tried to understand more thoroughly his collaborators' work through practice, by stepping into their shoes. Following this philosophy, his creative work explores unlikely connections between ideas, people and intentions, simultaneous or overlapping events, interculturality, ideological systems and the unexplored potential in society.
Elsewhere, he has worked within the corporate and educational sectors and served as an entrepreneur member on the boards of the Finnish film and television union SET as well as Audiovisual Finland, which worked towards a Finnish production incentive.
Dmitry's work has been recognised by funding from AVEK, Taike and his past employers and end clients include: YLE / Fiilin Good Films, Passion Pictures, Elokuvayhtiö Aamu, the Criterion Collection, the Anywhere Festival, Canon, Pearson, Aalto University, the European Commission and Wilder Films.
Dmitry is a member of Lilith, Finland's largest creative cooperative, packaging talents from music, writing and design to journalism and producing.
Education
M.A. in DirectingRose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, London
B.A. Drama with Russian
Queen Mary University of London
Turku and Helsinki Universities
Philosophical aesthetics and art history and comparative religious studies
Aalto University / Helsinki School of Economics
Entrepreneurship for the Creative Arts program
Aalto University / University of Industrial Arts, Helsinki (TaiK)
Entrepreneurship for Artists program
The Marketing Institute, Porvoo, Finland
Entrepreneurship course
Grants
Recipient of Creademo grants in 2013 and 2014 from the Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK) for Plasticine, the screenwriting book and tool.Recipient in 2017 of a Taike/Arts Promotion Centre grant as part of the Divine Consultants animated series. team.
References
Below, you will find a few references representing various types of responsibilities and industries. Click on these links to read the references.
· Subject Leader reference, Education· Translator reference, Marketing and Technical translation
· First Assistant Director reference, commercial production
· Second Assistant Director reference, television production
· Creative Assistant/Editor reference, documentary and corporate production
Affiliations
Member of: · The Creative Co-op Lilith· Film and Media Professionals Finland (ELMA)
· The Trade Union for Theatre and Media Finland (Teme)
· Kopiosto, the Finnish copyright society
Board member of:
· The Union of Film and Media Employees Finland (SET)
· 2012-16 Finnish Film & Audiovisual Export (Favex), 2015
Participation while a student:
· Student representative of the Russian Dept., QM, London
· The NT100/playmates focus group, the National Theatre, London