Aleksi Mäkelä (director)

For other people named Aleksi Mäkelä, see Aleksi Mäkelä (disambiguation).

Tane Aleksanteri ”Aleksi” Mäkelä (born 20 November 1969) is a Finnish film director and occasional actor. He is best known for having directed several popular films such as Häjyt (1999), Matti (2006) and Vares – yksityisetsivä (2004). During his career, he has also worked for television.^[1]

Mäkelä in 2006

Personal life

Aleksi Mäkelä's father was an actor Vesa Mäkelä (1947–2003).^[2]

Selected filmography

Films

• The Romanov Stones (Romanovin kivet, 1993)
• Sunset Riders (Esa ja Vesa – auringonlaskun ratsastajat, 1994)
• The Tough Ones (Häjyt, 1999)
• The South (Lomalla, 2000)
• Bad Boys (Pahat pojat, 2003)
• Vares: Private Eye (Vares – yksityisetsivä, 2004)
• Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (Matti, 2006)
• V2: Dead Angel (V2 – Jäätynyt enkeli, 2007)
• Hellsinki (Rööperi, 2009)
• Life for Sale (Kotirauha, 2011)
• The Hijack That Went South (Kaappari, 2013)
• Kummeli V (2014)
• Love Records: Gimme Some Love (Love Records – Anna mulle Lovee, 2016)
• 95 (2017)

Television

• ''Syke (2015, 2017)