Timo Vuorensola is a filmmaker, a musician, and an early Internet enthusiast from Finland. He begun his work directing a feature film with a no-budget, a sci-fi parody Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, produced by Samuli Torssonen for Energia Productions. The film turned into an Internet phenomenon after becoming the first-ever feature-length film released for free on the Internet.
After the success of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning in 2005, Timo started to work together with Torssonen and a group of Star Wreck filmmakers – including Jarmo Puskala – on a crazy new idea: a film about Nazis on the Dark Side of the Moon, titled Iron Sky. Very soon, producer Tero Kaukomaa got interested on the production and joined the team.
The production took the filmmakers across the world to produce the 8-million-€ scifi feature film. The filming took place in Germany, Australia and Finland. Torssonen created an “in-house” VFX team to produce the extensive visual effects workload the film required – the core of the team later formed Troll VFX, nowadays one of Finland’s leading VFX production companies. The film was partially financed via crowdfunding, then still an unknown form of fan-based micro funding, gathering over 1 million € through fan donations, and paving a way for the future of crowdfunding as a phenomenon.
Iron Sky was released in 2012 at Berlin Film Festival, as part of the Panorama program, selling out every screening and gaining huge amount of international attention, leading to wide theatrical and digital distribution across the world.
After the production of Iron Sky, Vuorensola, Kaukomaa and the German co-producer Oliver Damian started to develop the follow-up to the film, titled Iron Sky The Coming Race. The story continued down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories, grabbing the famed “Hollow Earth” theory as its’ core.
The production took place this time in Belgium, at big studios in Lint where the film was built completely inside a studio or on green screen. Visual effects were created by Pixomondo, a big German VFX production facility.
The film was released eventually in 2019 in festivals, theatrically and on streaming platforms such as Netflix, Apple TV and more.
In 2020, Timo was invited to direct ORWO Studios production Jeepers Creepers: Reborn, with Jake Seal and Terry Bird producing. The production took place in Louisiana, USA at ORWO Studios and at Lasham, UK at Black Hangar Studios. The film was released worldwide in 2022, theatrically in multiple countries including US and UK.
Timo’s latest film is an action-thriller 97 Minutes, starring Alec Baldwin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and MyAnna Buring, produced by Jamie Thompson, Pavan Grover and Jake Seal for Black Hangar Studios. The film was released in 2023 internationally, theatrically in US and other territories, and on streaming and DVD and BluRay everywhere.
In addition to filmmaking, Timo has also released music in his bands Älymystö and Viihten uusi aalto, co-wrote a book about production of Iron Sky, wrote and directed several advertisements (for Burger King, for example) and music videos, and is currently working on several screenplays of his own or as a collaborator. Currently residing in Helsinki, Finland, he’s a father of one, loves crossfit (but totally sucks at it) and golf (and sucks at it even worse) and collecting vinyls, David Bowie and heavy metal being his main point of interest.
Timo has a production company together with producer Tero Kaukomaa called Son Of A Pitch.
Filmography:
Norjalainen huora (short) (1998)
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)
Iron Sky (2012)
Iron Sky The Coming Race (2019)
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
97 Minutes (2023)
Representation
Timo Vuorensola is represented by Andrew Deane and Stephen Crawford at Industry Entertainment (+1 323-954-9000) for US feature films, Anton Molander at Cocoa Mediaproductions for advertisements and Tero Kaukomaa / Son Of A Pitch for everything else.
But hey, don’t be a stranger! If you wanna contact me directly on anything else, drop an email to timo at sonofapitch dot fi – happy to chat!
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Hi there! I backed the BluRay Steelbook version of your (upcoming?!?) Iron Sky- The coming Race on Indiegogo years ago. So what‘s up with this project? Will we get what we paid for or is it just blowing in the wind? There are no news for months now which starts pissing me of like others on Indiegogo, and they become more an more. And it seams like this your personal homepage is the only adress to get to a more updated site then the crowdfounding page itself. I’ve got no words for this! One of the worst supports ever. Shame on you. It feels like I‘m being robbed!!!
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Hey there, Marco. Yeah, we ran into some production issues about a year ago, and our projected release date – 14.2.2017 – had to be moved to a later date so that we had time to finish the film with the quality we wanted to get it released. We’ve been hard at work fixing the issues for the last 12 months, and luckily, we now have solved the issues and the film is back on track, with a new release date being agreed with the distributors – one which we will release as soon as we have all the parties in the same basket, so to say. This is also the reason for lack of information for the few last months, we want to give you a confirmed release date instead of guesstimates, so a bigger, more official update is on its’ way.
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Hey, big fan! I know the Iron Sky 2 projected was pushed back and you were asking for some more financing a while back for one of the ending scenes. I was just curious if you were still looking for investors? I feel like, given the template you’ve laid out and the plans I’ve seen for Iron Sky 3, this series could continue to build a large following. I love the conspiracy appeal towards the creation of humanity. Nail on the head. Anyways, get back to me, I’d love to possibly be a part of this project. Thanks
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Thanks, Devin; great to hear. Yes, investors are still being taken onboard, as we are looking growing the franchise; drop email to tero@ironsky.net – he will tell you eagerly more!
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Hi Timo,
My name is Ian…I’m a 37 year old disabled police officer and purple heart recipient from Wisconsin…
Don’t know if you check these but I Saw the new Creeper trailer and can’t wait. I had a question about the premiere and was wondering if you could message me or email me directly?
Hope all is well.
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Hey man really love your Jeepers Creepers Reborn. Great fun movie. Watched it at the cinema. Any interesting making of info to share ? Really enjoyed it.
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will we have a new Jeepers Creepers?
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Hello,
I would like to ask you for a price for providing rights for screening of following movie:
1. Iron Sky: The Coming Race
We are a small cinema with 26 seats in the centre of Prague. I will be happy if you can give an interesting price.
We are also preparing a movie festival where capacity for single screening will be 160-175 seats. I would like to ask you for a price of single licence for this case as well.
Thank you very much in advance for your reply.
Best regards David Paškevič
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Hey there, David; the film is nowadays owned by distributor Myriad Pictures, and they handle all the distribution rights for Iron Sky and its’ sequel. Send email to info@myriadpictures.com for the request. Thank you for the interest, hopefully you get it screened!
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Thank you very much, I have already written to them
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Hello Timo,
I would like to ask you about a possibility of selling merch in the form of T-Shirt etc. Ideally with your signature. It would be for our small cinema called Batl (www.kinobalt.cz). People love your movies and this would really really make them happy. Thank you very much letting me know the options. Best regards David Paškevič
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Hey Timo,
after all the scolding and negative publicity your Jeepers Creepers Reborn has received, I would like to say that you don’t have to give in to all the negative criticism, because it wasn’t that bad. Of course there are points of criticism, sometimes rightly so…but I actually liked Reborn better than the third part. Jarreaud Benjamin (i also told him) did a good job and the Creeper looked fine to me, just different, but it still looked great. The film also had an appealing look and was very entertaining and also had one or the other very cool scene. I liked the setting in the house and I liked the fact that “Reborn” had more of a “slasher” attitude. I know most of them don’t like it, but looking back you can say that Reborn definitely deserves a second chance, because as a short-lived slasher it’s really good to watch, even within the franchise….basically should he entertain and he does, despite one or the other deficits. Well, there are quite a few who thought your work was absolutely great. Part 5 can come;) Thank you.
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