{"id":291,"date":"2026-04-21T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:45:18","slug":"a-bit-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"A bit about me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m an indie filmmaker and music video director who has been doing this since the late 90s. I&#8217;ve written and directed three feature films (the third one yet to be released publicly) and somewhere around 100 music videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally I was fully focused on making feature films. That was my dream and passion. As the years went by, I started to look at music videos as something I&#8217;d be willing to dip my toe into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got interested in them in the early 90s after seeing videos such as&nbsp;<em>The Kids Aren&#8217;t Alright<\/em>&nbsp;by&nbsp;The Offspring, but the strong urge to make them myself didn&#8217;t come until the mid-2000s, when I saw videos such as&nbsp;<em>Late Goodbye<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Lift<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Carnival of Rust<\/em>&nbsp;by&nbsp;Poets of the Fall. There were many others too, but those three really pushed me over the edge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an indie filmmaker and music video director who has been doing this since the late 90s. I&#8217;ve written and directed three feature films (the third one yet to be<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/?p=291\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A bit about me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,31],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yleinen","tag-director-miika-hakala","tag-miika-hakala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miikahakala.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}