Antti. J. Jokinen was born 1968 in Nurmijärvi, Finland. He attended East Carolina University on a basketball scholarship. He graduated at the top of his class with a major in Film. While in college, he made a short film based on Jim Morrison’s poetry entitled ”Fist Full of Sand” which won a filmmaking award at the North Carolina Film Festival and attracted attention from the executives at MTV in New York City. After College, Mr. Jokinen moved to New York and worked for MTV as an assistant producer.
Returning to Finland, Mr. Jokinen co-founded his own production company, Solar Films, which has grown into Finland’s largest TV and film producer. Mr. Jokinen directed and co-wrote a “faux” documentary BIOTERROR, which was shot in English and distributed via Canal Plus to ten different countries around the world, including the US.