Susanna Salonen
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Susanna Salonen | |
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| Occupations | Film director, writer, cinematographer |
| Notable work | Patong Girl |
| Website | salonen.de |
Susanna Salonen is a Finnish-German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Born in 1966 in Finland, Salonen grew up in Lübeck and trained as a camerawoman in Berlin. She has shot several award-winning documentaries, and written and directed fiction films. Her fiction debut Patong Girl[1] won the prestigious German Grimme award in 2016.[2] Salonen is a member of the German film academy.
In 2020, she filmed in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC Expedition on German research-icebreaker Polarstern for the international documentary Arctic Drift on climate change research in the Arctic.[3][4]
