Ilkka Untamo Järvi-Laturi[1] (28 November 1961 – 5 March 2023) was a Finnish-born US-based film director whose best known film was Spy Games (1999) starring Bill Pullman and Irene Jacob.
The film was shot in Helsinki, New York and Toronto.
Järvi-Laturi won the Nordic Film Prize for the best Scandinavian Film of The Year and the highest Finnish film prize Jussi Award[2] (best screenplay) in 1990 for Kotia päin (Homebound).
His Estonian actioner Darkness in Tallinn is the most widely distributed Estonian film so far, and won the Silver Alexander in Thessaloniki and the Fassbinder prize in Mannheim.
Järvi-Laturi lived in New York City and Beijing.