Petri Kemppinen
TV Beats Programme Coordinator, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) , Finland

Petri is Co-Head of TV Beats Forum, the TV series industry sidebar at the Black Nights Film Festival of Tallinn. Apart from curating the event together with Roosa Toivonen, he is working internationally with financing and development of film and TV content, training artists and producers on career, individual projects and company development. He has over 30 years of experience in various roles in journalism, publishing and the audiovisual sector.

Petri works through his own consulting enterprise P1 Kemppinen and production company Good Hand Production. Previously he was CEO of Aurora Studios and Senior Advisor at Finnish Impact Film Fund and CEO of the pan-Nordic funding body Nordisk Film & TV Fond in Oslo. He has also served at the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company, publishing house Hard & Pet and Helsingin Sanomat newspaper.

As a financier, he has been part of more than 50 TV drama series and 150 films and renowned TV dramas like Cry Wolf, Paradise, Trapped, Occupied and The Thin Blue Line.

He is a frequent moderator at industry events, works now as an expert at training programs EAVE, Medici and Alternativa and represents a post-production consortium Totalpost Finland. He is also a member of the European Film Academy and the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.