The three-part series will be shown on Yle early next year. The story also tells about the coexistence of different cultures along Väylä, i.e. in Tornionjokilaakso.
The Oulu-based production company Whatevergroup is currently filming the television series Kriittinen piste. There will be three 50-minute episodes.
– We have lighting technicians, a costume designer, a makeup artist, a photographer and a camera crew. So it’s a pretty big circus, which always moves when you start doing things like this.
– A couple of years ago, we went here for the first time to hang out at the high school. The high school students were in the hall, and we asked who would like to come along to perform or as an assistant. There weren’t many who said no thanks. All in all, the people of Ylitorni have been very interested in this.
Shooting locations did not have to be dug under a rock either.
– They were found very comfortably and quite painlessly. We had similar things that were clear from the beginning, for example that Tornionjoki. It divides the two nationalities of Finland and Sweden, and this kind of coexistence is also a theme in the content of the series. And then that Alkkulanraitti works really well for us as a shooting milieu.
The main character of the series is 19-year-old \”Hodan Ibrahim\ a young woman of Somali background who wants to become the best hill jumper in the world. In the story, he is forced by circumstances to move to Ylitornio to live with his father.
– He doesn’t really know how he would be able to continue his Olympic dream and ski jumping in his new home. Fortunately, he finds a retired hill jumper from Perepohja by his side, who goes to coach him.
– Toni said, when we talked for the first time, that if you haven’t gone down the hill at the age of ten, no one will come down there safely, Kaarlela says.
Yle will present the series early next year on television and in Yle Areena.