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Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland is a film of genre Documentary released in USA on 8 june 2011

Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (2010)

Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland
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Reindeerspotting: Escape from Santaland (Finnish: Reindeerspotting: pako Joulumaasta) is a Finnish documentary film about drug abusers in Rovaniemi, Finland. It was directed by Joonas Neuvonen and produced by Jesse Fryckman and Oskari Huttu. The first screening of the film was in Tampere, April 2010, Finland.

The documentary follows several young drug abusers, but focuses on Jani Raappana. Jani is a drug addict, whose drug of choice is Subutex taken intravenously. He is unemployed and he finances his addiction through thefts, burglaries, and welfare payments.

The name of the movie is a direct allusion to the 1996 British drama film Trainspotting that treated the same theme from a Scottish point of view.

The film was shown outside of Finland for the first time in Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland.



^ Box Office Mojo 2010 Finland Yearly Box Office Results, Retrieved 22 July 2011

^ http://www.hs.fi/english/article/New+documentary+follows+lives+of+drug+addicts+in+Rovaniemi/1135253820360

^ http://www.bronsonclub.com/reindeerspotting/site/info.html

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