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MCFF No. 3 presents: THE MASTER BREWER and THE PREDICTION OF EXTREME EVENTS – Sun Jul 31 @ 1pm

THE MASTER BREWER

A magical comeback story about Leo Andelin, who in 1963 developed the most famous food of Finland – Lapin Kulta beer. A boy from a working class family in remote Tornio, Leo grows up to become the humble gentleman of beer, who passionately nurtures his “northern beer flower”. Leo’s life’s work is destroyed in 2010 when the time-honored Tornio brewery is shut down by the global beer giant Heineken. Local returnee Kaj Kostiander flies to the rescue of the old beer Jedi, who passes on his wisdom to the younger man. Together they launch a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign and hunt for the original beer yeast. And, like a real-life fairy tale, a golden reward awaits Leo and Kaj at the end. Uplifting and beautiful, THE MASTER BREWER shows how people living far from the centers of global power can still survive and prosper with ingenuity, perseverance and authenticity.

Running Time: 26 minutes

Director Biography – Antti Haase (Finland)
Antti Haase (b. 1972) grew up in the neighborhood of Santa Claus in Rovaniemi, the capital of Finnish Lapland. In the late 1990s he studied and worked in Australian film industry and received Film Australia Documentary Award for his AFTRS graduation documentary Clown Doctors (2000). After migrating back to Finland Antti has directed documentary films set in his native Lapland. Monsterman (2014), a film about the Finnish heavy metal band Lordi, won the Main Prize for documentary films at Austin Film Festival and the Finnish State Quality Award. Monsterman was in the top 10 of Finnish films with the most international festival screenings in 2016. The Illuminators (2017) is a family story about Antti’s grandfather Gunnar Haase, who became “the father of light” to Lapland after introducing electricity to the region. Among the international awards, the film won the best documentary prize at the Nordic Film Days Lübeck. In October 2020 Antti was presented with Lapland Artist Award.

THE PREDICTION OF EXTREME EVENTS – THE STORY OF E.J. GUMBEL

E.J. Gumbel was one of the first to describe and understand extreme events through extreme value statistics, but forgotten is his political life that made him once one of the most exposed enemies of the Nazis, fighting against populism and the rise of fascism. David Ruf’s documentary film ‘Gumbel’s Extreme Values’, tells the story of his life through animation, archive material and interviews.

Running Time: 1 hour

Director Biography – David Ruf (Germany)
David Ruf was born in Bavaria, Germany. After graduating from high school, he shot his first documentary film on the volunteer industry in Kolkata, India. He traveled in the Middle East, South America and traveled through Russia and Ukraine on a moped. From 2007 to 2014 he studied documentary film directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. His graduation film was “Children of Light,” a feature film with Syrian children living as refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border. The film was awarded the “Program Award 2018” of the Public German Television. In 2017, he founded the production company “Rocinante Film”.