Leila Lyytikäinen

Biography

Lyytikäinen studied production in Helsinki and started working with films in 1999. She was hired by the production company Kinoproduction Oy right after school and started as an assistant producer on feature films and producing short films on her own. In 2003 she produced her first feature film called Shade of Happiness and has since produced feature films such as Mystery of the Wolf, Colorado Avenue, Lasse Majas detective Agency amongst others. Lyytikäinen joined the production company Fisher King Production as a producer and partner in 2012. At Fisher King Lyytikäinen has produced the feature length documentary HOME. Somewhere, the tv-series a Christmas Calendar – the almost naked truth, and the feature film Other Girls (cinema release in March 2015). In production Lyytikäinen has the tv-drama Replacements (shooting autumn 2014) and the crime series Bordertown. Lyytikäinen is a EAVE graduate (2007), member of the ACE network, a board member of the Finnish producer association for several years, and a voting member for the European Film Academy. Fisher King Production is a Helsinki based production company that produces feature films and tv-drama for both local and international markets. Founded in 2009 Fisher King is the production company behind the widely distributed TV-drama NYMPHS.