Teemu Nikki is a self-taught filmmaker and the son of a pig farmer from Finland. He has directed dozens of short films and hundreds of commercials and music videos - as well as several feature films and TV shows. That makes him a genre-free thus genre-enthusiastic director and storyteller. His work has been shortlisted and awarded in several festivals all over the world.

Teemu Nikki is a very experienced short film director. He has worked on advertisements, videoclips, as well as on two youth series that have won awards at the Golden Venla in Finland. He also directed three feature films. His short films have won awards at the Tampere International Film Festival in 2003, 2006 and 2013.