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b y M a r y J o L a n g C A S Can you tell me a bit about your background? How did you get started in sound? Peter Albrechtsen: I am a sound designer and re-recording mixer based in Copenhagen. I've been working on fiction films, documentaries and many Danish and international movies since graduating from The Danish Film School in 2001. At the school, I learned you could approach the sound for documentaries just as creatively as in a fiction film—it's all about telling stories with sound—and I find it really inspiring to go back-and-forth between the two. Heikki Kossi: I've been working on sound in films since 2000. I studied sound design for radio and television in Turku, Finland, and spent many years as a professional musician. I love music still, but did not like long trips in a van and lots of hotel rooms! I feel that a song has drama and a story to tell and so does film. Working with sound opened me up to a whole new world. I worked as a boom operator, sound editor, sound designer and ended up working as a Foley artist, although, in the past year, I have been doing more sound design work. How did you get involved with this project? PA: The director Simon Lereng Wilmont did two short documentaries before this project and I was involved in both of them, one as a sound designer and one as a sound consultant. It's such a pleasure working with Simon, as he's really open for exploring what sound can do. His movies are very focused on atmosphere and have a very special, fragile sensitivity. This really opens [them] up for sonic possibilities, as sound is such an emotional and evocative medium. At the same time, this film was a Danish-Finnish co-production, so it was also a wonderful chance to work with two great Finnish colleagues and friends, Heikki and Pietu Korhonen, whom I've collaborated with on many, many films—Heikki is the Foley artist on all movies I work on. HK: I got to know the director through his previous film Chikara (aka Chikara - Sumobryderens Søn, 2013) which Heikki Kossi Peter Albrechtsen