During 2023, we will start a new animation project called In the King´s Town. It is a classic stop-motion film for all audiences, ca. 60 minutes, and beside, a TV-version of 6 x 10 min., for children aged 7-12. It is based on documentary stories about the mass immigration of the Finnish Romas to Sweden between late Sixties and early Seventies. The journey from the poor and isolated Carelian villages to the urban Stockholm was in many ways a turning point in the history of Finnish Romas: in Sweden, the families got decent housing, working opportunities and possibilities to send the children to the school too. But old homeland was always present in their songs and fairytales, and especially the older ones never forgot Carelian hills and forests.
