Arttu Salmi

A cinephile from an early age, Arttu dropped out of engineering studies in favour of fool-hearted filmmaking ambitions. Originally from Finland, he studied editing and post-production at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences - working part-time as a film projectionist at the local cinema. He followed that with a whirlwind semester of film studies at the prestigious FAMU (Prague) and finally completed a Master’s degree in film editing from the National Film + Television School (UK).
 

Based in London for more than a decade now, he enjoys crafting stories with their distinct feel, language and form. Already exhibiting a wide variety, through commercials, animation, music videos, arthouse, experimental and dance films, he consciously tries to pick projects that offer new challenges and learning opportunities.

His latest work includes the asylum seeker love story Dreamers (dir. Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor), which premiered at Berlinale 2025, the bold, erotic gay identity drama Sebastian (dir. Mikko Mäkelä), which premiered at Sundance 2024 (World Cinema Dramatic Competition), the A24-produced fantasy dramedy Tuesday (dir. Daina O. Pusic) starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, which premiered at Telluride in 2023, and the dystopian drama The End We Start From (dir. Mahalia Belo) starring Jodie Comer, premiered at Toronto Int. Film Festival 2023 and garnered him a nomination for BEST EDITING at the British Independent Film Awards 2023.  

His work spans across many genres and styles, both in fiction and documentary, and has screened at Sundance, Berlinale, Toronto, Telluride, Hot Docs, Tribeca, Anima Mundi, AFI Fest, BFI London, Bristol Encounters and Sheffield DOC/FEST, and broadcast by the BBC, Sky Arts, Al Jazeera and YLE Finland.

Job title

Head of Editing

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Staff role

Staff

Course

MA Filmmaking

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