Mikko Iho
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Mikko Iho (born May 9th, 1975 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish commercial film director.
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[edit] Future Crew
Mikko was a graphic artist at Future Crew as the graphics artist named "Pixel". During those years, he participated in the making of Unreal and Second Reality, which both won first place at Assembly demo party. Second Reality may be considered one of the most influential PC demos ever made.
During the years 1997-1999 Mikko won several prices in graphics and video competitions at Assembly demo party.
At 17, he worked in USA designing computer game graphics for Epic Games.
[edit] Visual effects
1997-2001 he worked as visual effects artist at Factory Post, currently known as Generator Post. During five years, he created visual effects for hundreds of commercials and music videos for bands like Bomfunk MC's, Darude and JS16.
[edit] Film directing
His first commercial was short listed in Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. After that, he’s been working on many productions, including the TV campaign in Finland for the Finnish Railways.
Mikko is currently working as a full time director at Grillifilms.
[edit] Screen
During 1997-2002 Mikko was running a club concept in Finland, Screen. During those years, he was involved of bringing some of the most influential deejays in the world to Finland. Screen guests include deejays like John Digweed, Carl Cox, Deep Dish, Josh Wink, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren and many other.
Screen was voted as "Club of the year" 2001 and 2002 at Platinum Finnish Club Awards. Mikko also won the "Flyer series of the year" award in 2002.
