JOONA TENA
Joona Tena is a film director and writer. He has worked both in film and television, writing and directing a variety of genres including dramas, thrillers, and comedies. His latest completed works as a director in TV are ROBA (2012-2015) and NURSES (2014). Before SUPER FURBALL, he completed two feature films: BODY OF WATER (2011) and FC VENUS (2005). His latest work as a writer are international co-production ARCTIC CIRCLE and national 100th anniversary film 95.

Director's statement
My inner child loves stories where magic enters an everyday setting. So, while our hero Emilia is an ordinary girl living in an ordinary suburb of an ordinary city, her rich imagination creates the perfect motive for a cinematic mixture of live-action realism, goofy cartoonish animation and CGI adventure scenes inherent to the superhero genre. Also, with the global newsfeed so easily available to today's children, they become aware of the complex grown-up problems like environmental pollution at a very young age. So I liked the idea of having our hero tackle these real world problems instead of imaginary super villains. But again, this happens on a level familiar to a child, motivated by her very real fear of losing her best friend. And in the end, what really counts is the hero's battle to find her path as an ordinary child, being a good friend while facing schoolyard bullying and peer pressure from classmates.