Hannes Vartiainen met Pekka Veikkolainen in Järvenpää in 1990.

After finishing high school Vartiainen graduated as a film director from the Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia while Veikkolainen studied graphic design at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

[1] They have been working together since 2007, founding a production company Pohjankonna Oy in 2008 and finishing their first film in 2009.

Since then they have released a number of short films (that won numerous awards[2][3][4][5][6][7] and had books written about them[8]), entered the world of fulldome films (founding Leading Note Pictures Oy in 2017) and dipped into VR.

[9] Their frequent collaborators include Joonatan Portaankorva (who has composed and sound designed all the films) and Janne Pulkkinen (who specialises in visualising micro-CT and other forms of volumetric data).