Timo Heinänen F.S.C.

Curriculum Vitae

Timo Heinänen is a cinematographer, photographer and a professor of cinematography in ELO Film School Helsinki, Finland, also the head of the film studies in ELO.
He has shot 20 features, 33 TV films, numerous TV series, documentaries and short films. Heinänen has worked as a web designer for many film companies and held several photo exhibitions in Finland. He is a board member of Finnish Society of Cinematographers and a deputy board member of IMAGO, European federation of Cinematographers.
Currently he is also a doctoral student at ELO. The title of his forthcoming dissertation is "Cinematographer’s Canvas - cinematic image with borders", which focuses on the process of cinematographers working with variety of aspect ratios.