Hjalmar V. Pohjanheimo

Hjalmar V. Pohjanheimo (22 December 1867, in Jyväskylä – 20 August 1936, in Helsinki) was a Finnish film producer and director.

[2][3] Pohjanheimo bought the feature film Sylvi, shot in 1911, for FIM 4,500 from the filmmaker trio Teuvo Puro, Teppo Raikka and Frans Engström.

In 1913–1914, theater director and actor Kaarle Halme directed four feature films for Lyyra Film (Young Pilot, Bloodless, Summer, On Foreign Ground), which also involved a theater company led by Halme.

[2][3] In total, Pohjanheimo produced as many as 15 of the 25 Finnish feature films during the period of autonomy.

In 1914, Pohjanheimo began producing the first Finnish weekly news review films under the name Lyyran Viikkolehti.