Seeking New Paths
This is a story of a Finnish woman entrepreneur Melina Holmberg who leaves her home farm and moves with four horses and two dogs to Spain to live.
This documentary film tell about the many sides of entrepreneurship, meaning of family and what is valuable for a human being. Before moving abroad Melina managed to fulfill many dreams like having a family with 3 children, moving to the countryside and starting a company of her own.
Film Credits
Director
Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen
Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen is a Finnish doc film director and producer with background in journalism, cross media and project management. She has a master degree in journalism and has studied multiple languages. She works as a CEO of production company Mikkelin Mediaali Ltd and continues to do journalistic projects for various distribution channels.
Her four doc films give grassroot insights to Finnish society. Her first film The Reindeer belong to Wind (40 min, 2016) lets the indigenous Sámi people up in Lapland tell the world about the challenges they are facing with land use policies. When School broke out of Prison film shows how small schools are being closed down in rural areas and how activists in a tiny village run a school of their own for two years on voluntary basis. Toyota and Windbreaker is a doc film about a brave woman entrepreneur who wants to develop her nursing home company even if international chains are knocking on her door wanting to buy it. All four films have been screened at international film festivals and have received awards.
Credits
Päivi Kapiainen-Heiskanen - Writer / Producer
Specifications
Genré: Lifestyle
Runtime:
52 minutes
Country of Origin:
Finland