NTRNZ media is an award-winning creative house specialised in content production and marketing. We create formats, content and concepts for all platforms, channels and media globally. We design and implement impressive combinations of visuality, online services and video. Pure, northern nature is our eternal source of inspiration.
We create phenomena. We tell stories and communicate messages in video format in all platforms. What really inspires us is content that has an entertaining or marketing purpose but also carries a deeper meaning. We produce everything from TV series to live sports broadcasts, social media content and short movies.
Stories spark imagination, and imagination is an essential element of a brand. In the social media age, your target group is also building an image of itself with the content it shares. You need to build your brand to be an example of your target group or a messenger of their values. We help you achieve this with long-term and systematic branded content design and production.
We design the brand strategy and visual marketing materials for international brands, with years of experience. We manage the visual marketing entirety: from video production to webistes, logos, brochures and trade fair stands.
An ever-increasing amount of business takes place online. We create websites that keep our clients on the crest of the online presence wave. We combine our visual expertise with the latest online technologies and e-commerce solutions to provide an entirety that is second to none. Our hardcore coding experts also have Google AdWords Search Engine Optimisation Certificates.
20.1.2020 - news
Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild, original Finnish series) was awarded its third Golden Venla at the Finnish Television Academy’s annual Venla Gala on January 17th, 2020. This time, the series was chosen as the Best Lifestyle Program of 2019. Earlier, Eränkävijät has won the Best TV Program 2017 and Best Performer 2018 awards, by popular vote. The Best Lifestyle Program is chosen by the Television Academy’s professional jury.
Eränkävijät premiered on YLE TV1 in 2016. The fourth season aired in the autumn of 2019, followed by Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic, an international version of the series that follows nature lifestyle in five European countries. The fifth season of the Finnish original series premieres in the autumn of 2020, and a second season of the international series is in production.
14.1.2020 - news
Award-winning production house NTRNZ media has started the production of a new, six-part documentary series about battles in the Arctic areas during the second World War. Distribution rights have already been sold to Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Filming begins in summer 2020 and takes place in Finland and Europe, as well as North America.
The battles in the Arctic areas have never been covered on this scale. The general public has not known about the impact they had on world history. I also think it’s important to remind people about the most violent war in human history so that history will never repeat itself.
Executive producer Teemu Hostikka
The series is written by the renowned Finnish war author Mika Kulju and respected Swedish war historian, Lars Gyllenhaal. Both have written several books about battles in the northern areas. The series is narrated by actor Peter Franzén.
World War Two was more Arctic than most people are aware of. The Arctic is getting more and more important, not least because of climate change. Thus the amazing operations that took place up here are both exciting and important to learn about.
Lars Gyllenhaal
Several battlefields in the Arctic areas have remained almost untouched. The series gives new, international perspectives to the battles that took place in Finland – such as the Raate road battle – and gives the viewer an opportunity to travel through time, into history.
Mika Kulju
The ambitious documentary series has already evoked international attention. In Finland, the series is broadcasted by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle.
This is a very significant project. In addition to high-quality drama series, international streaming services are investing in documentary series. To respond to this challenge we need series with many different partners and investors. This one is backed by all the broadcasting companies in the Nordics, except Iceland. The quality must, of course, be high, and NTRNZ has already proven its ability to produce international quality.
Ari Ylä-Anttila, Commissioner, Yle
The production is expected to be completed at the end of 2021.
NTRNZ media is a creative house specialised in content production and marketing. One of our core values is respect for pure Northern nature. NTRNZ media is best known for the tv series Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild), as well as being the marketing partner of many Northern Finnish tourism operators and known brands, such as the Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team and the biggest rock festival in northern Finland, Qstock.
Mika Kulju is an expert in Northern Finland’s war history. He has written 25 nonfiction books, 10 of which deal with northern war history. His latest book about the Winter war in Lapland (Kaksintaistelu lumessa – Lapin talvisota 1939) was published by Gummerus in 2019.
Lars Gyllenhaal is a Swedish author who writes about military history and in particular, about Swedish involvement in the wars of the 20th century.
More information:
Teemu Hostikka
NTRNZ media Oy
+358 45 639 8664
Ari Ylä-Anttila
Yle
+358 40 5034549
19.12.2019 - news
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic follows the lives of a Norwegian heavy metal Viking, a young Austrian falconer, a mountain guide in the Italian Alps, a Russian gamekeeper, and a Finnish fishing guide couple.
A mountain guide working in altitudes that make your heart skip a beat. The relationship of a hunting falcon and his human. The lonely gamekeeper in Russia taking care of his animals – both wild and domestic. A fishing guide couple finding their way through the arctic wilderness with no roads. A heavy metal Viking tamed by the greatness of nature.
The new series by NTRNZ Media, the creators of the multiple-award-winning Finnish TV format Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild) presents people from different corners of Europe, living next to the most amazing natural sites. They are different in many ways but have a shared passion: nature. For all of them, pure and healthy nature is a necessity, for their livelihood, profession and wellbeing. The series follows the main characters’ days from dusk till dawn and through all four seasons in the amazing landscapes of Italy, Norway, Russian Karelia, Austria and Finland.
The Alps are the home of mountain guide Stefano Percino from Val d’Ayas, Italy. Watching his everyday life and work in the Monte Rosa takes the viewer’s breath away – in 4000 metres life is sometimes hanging by a thread.
Doris Hiebeler from St. Leonhard, Austria has been working with her closest companions since she was 4 years old. She is a falconer, and in her game, the key is not high-tech equipment but cooperation with an intelligent, sensitive fellow species whose trust and acceptance must be earned.
Viktor Iljin from Vidliza, Karelia opens a door to a different kind of Russia. The retired mechanic, lawyer and police chief lives by the great Lake Ladoga with his dogs. As gamekeeper, Viktor travels long distances alone in the wilderness, looking for poachers and keeping an eye on the game populations.
In Norway, we meet Morgan Vikne from Børve. He talks and wears heavy metal, but needs nature to calm down. He takes the viewer in the fjords on his fishing boat and in the highlands on horseback. Behind his jokes and big talk, Morgan is worried about the youth losing their connection to nature.
Aki Huhtanen, Emilia Laitinen and Äijä the dog from the original Finnish series take us to the hidden villages in northernmost Lapland, where no roads lead. The fishing waters are untouched, and so is the hustle and bustle of modern society.
The original highly successful Finnish format Eränkävijät is a two-time winner of the Finnish Television Academy’s Golden Venla award and is a finalist again in the 2019 awards. The first 3 seasons of the original series have been sold to over 30 countries. Season 4 just finished airing on Finnish TV.
– Transforming the format into an international series was a giant scaling effort in every aspect. To our surprise, we quickly noticed that despite the fact that they live thousands of kilometres apart in different cultures, our main characters share the same values and concerns for the wellbeing of Earth, our common home planet.
Showrunner, screenwriter and producer Teemu Hostikka
The production team comprises renown international cinematography professionals, with expertise in shooting in demanding mountain conditions, alongside the award-winning Finnish team behind the original series.
Guido Perrini is known as the director and cinematographer of renowned freeskiing movies La Liste (Red Bull media house), Degrees North with Xavier De La Rue and Deeper by Jeremy Jones. Tero Repo is one of the most successful Finnish mountain skiing/snowboarding photographers who currently lives in Switzerland. Repo has worked with Perrini in Degrees North and La Liste, and also for brands like The North Face, Swatch, Mammut, BBC, National Geographic and Red Bull.
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic is distributed by NordicWorld, the leading Scandinavian distributor of tv rights, through which tv content produced in Scandinavia is distributed worldwide. The first season airs on Finnish TV on December 29th.
Contact:
Teemu Hostikka
+358 45 639 8664
NTRNZ media
NTRNZ media is a creative house specialised in content production and marketing. One of our core values is respect for pure Northern nature. NTRNZ media is best known for the tv series Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild), as well as being the marketing partner of many known brands and Northern Finnish companies, such as Visit Kalajoki, Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team and Qstock festival.
Eränkävijät (Love of the Wild) seasons 1-3 have been sold to 30 countries already. The series is the first nature program and the first series produced in Northern Finland awarded with the Finnish TV academy’s Golden Venla award: Best TV show 2017 and Best Performer 2018.
NordicWorld is the leading Nordic distributor of tv rights, through which tv content produced in Scandinavia is distributed worldwide.
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic follows the lives of five passionate nature lovers in different corners of Europe through all four seasons. The series introduces European nature, a natural way of life and cultural variations more impressively and extensively than any series before.
The main characters all live and breathe through nature, even though they come from very different surroundings. As we see concrete signs of climate change on the Alpine glaciers, also the characters in the delicate Arctic region cherish their fragile environment. And while there is a battle going on with extreme weather conditions in the coast of the Atlantic ocean, our Central European protagonists strive to maintain traditions that date back thousands of years. A dependence on wilderness is seen perhaps most concretely in Eastern Europe, where nature has provided the means for living for a long time.
Love of the Wild – From the Alps to the Arctic follows the main characters through all four seasons, presenting the big variation within nature and between people’s ways of life throughout Europe. Clean and healthy nature is a must for all the characters because of their livelihoods as well as hobbies.
The main characters come from five different countries, covering all of Europe from the Alps to the Arctic. The series is produced by NTRNZ Media, the company behind the award-winning Finnish original version of Love of the Wild (Eränkävijät).
Facts:
Season 1 premieres in 2019 in Finland
Season 2 premieres in 2021 in Finland
Season 1: 6 x 52 min
Season 2: 6 x 52 min
Format: 4K
Language: Multilanguage
Broadcaster: YLE
The theme of the award winning series’ third season is “Deeper into the wilderness”. After the amazing success story of the second season, the series dives into the most remote corners of Finnish nature, introducing wildlife and nature lifestyle in their purest form.
The third season premiered in Finland in October 2018, and international sales are starting. Äijä the dog is sensationally famous, and a second book written by Mika Kulju was published by Gummerus in September 2018.
The fourth season is currently in production.
Facts:
Premiered in October 2018
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
In spring 2016, Kalajoki Tourism Association decided to revamp their marketing efforts. Some significant innovations and investments were taking place in the area, but Kalajoki had forgotten about tourists. The images of this magnificent district relied on the past, and the ways used to tell people about the renewed Kalajoki were not functioning properly.
In spring 2016, NTRNZ media revamped the visual expression, with the traditional logo continuing as the foundation of the area’s image. Our main message was encapsulated on the basis of a questionnaire sent to the enterprises in the area and interviews conducted on site. All planning and designs took into account all the services available at the resort and their competitive advantages over the competition. The end result was a multimedia campaign launched in early summer 2016 with the theme “Conquer Kalajoki”.
Media selections were made by NTRNZ media in cooperation with the Kalajoki Tourism Association. For the television and VOD campaigns, we dug up a song by the legendary Finnish singer Tapani Kansa called “Kalajoen Hiekat” (Kalajoki Sand Dunes), which was combined with the modern and youthful visual narrative. Over the summer, Kalajoki was visible in the largest printed media, nationwide in its television campaign, on the streets of Tampere, and globally with its revamped website. The brainstormed entirety for the trade fair stand supported the message conveyed by other media. The billboards in the area were also renewed in one fell swoop.
The end result was summer 2016 becoming the best ever summer experienced by Kalajoki. During some of the busiest weekends, everything was fully booked, and there literally was not even enough room to pitch a tent. We received many thanks from so many entrepreneurs in the region, as the marketing campaign was immediately apparent with the abundance of customers. The outstanding results obtained continues with marketing efforts for 2017 and 2018.
In 2018, Kalajoki made a national record in the increased amount of overnight stays in July.
Northern Finland’s biggest and most beautiful festival, Qstock approached NTRNZ media in 2015. The festival was looking for a new advertising agency partner for designing visual expression and implementing video production. The festival renews its image every year, which means both a dream come true as well as worst nightmare for the advertising agency: each year needs a new and contemporary image, but this nevertheless has to be in line with the material earlier produced. A challenge our team welcomed with open arms!
The carefully selected theme for Qstock 2016 was “Ancient Egypt”. We were seeking recognisable colour themes from the Indian Summer theme of the previous year, to which we introduced ancient Egyptian symbols. The renewal of the visual identity was a huge project, including everything from websites to drawing festival maps, designing stage textiles to publishing festival leaflets, admission tickets and VIP passes to taping the iconic Qstock van.
For the festive year of 2017, we were even braver with the colour scheme. This time we were after a more flamboyant and distinctive visual expression than in previous years. The visual image was also used for marketing the festive year. The visual expression was created using an eruption of colour and distinctive drawings, which gave Qstock a visual identity that was distinctly different from the other large festivals. The renewal of the visual image once more covered everything from printed media to online materials and from festival to television.
The summer of 2018 was inspired by the abundant range of summer colors that mirrors the event itself.
The Qstock Festival tickets were sold in advance in 2016, 2017 and 2018. In 2018 the festival also made a visitor record.
Magic in Lapland is a 5-part TV series about northern nature and world class illusions. The series is produced by award winning Finnish team with international experience. Magic in Lapland is currently under production, and will premiere in 2019. The series is available for broadcasters and distributors.
Facts:
5 x 24 min
Format: 4K
Language: English
Broadcaster: Available for distribution world wide
Our long-standing client Uniresta came up with the idea of creating a revolutionary restaurant concept for Oulu. The point of departure was healthy, natural, high-quality and tasty food for busy city folk. In addition to serving lunches and plentiful salad selections, they also serve delicatessen products ranging from smoothies to sandwiches.
A brand had to be created for the concept, and NTRNZ media became involved from the outset with brainstorming the name. We created the concept “From Health to Organic”, which was then shortened as H2O for the logo. The visual expression was designed to correspond to the foundations of the restaurant concept with a strong focus on healthy, natural local food.
H2O’s visual identity was implemented by NTRNZ as an entirety that included brainstorming graphic appearance, interior design, colour range, pictures, taping and signs. Already during the design stages, the scaling of the concept facilitated the potential addition of new restaurants. Now H2O has become a chain operating throughout the city of Oulu and is quickly expanding further afield.
The second season of Love of the Wild was a jackpot in Finnish television industry. The series won the Golden Venla Award for Best Program of the Year 2017 by public vote, the main prize of the most most valued gala in Finnish TV industry.
The audience loved the authenticity of the main characters, and Äijä the dog became the most famous dog in Finland. He even went to the Golden Venla gala to receive the trophy for Best Program.
The second season introduced a new main character, and the series was sold worldwide to over 30 countries. In autumn 2017, the Love of the Wild book written by Mika Kulju was published by Gummerus publishing house.
Facts:
Premiered in autumn 2017
Best program of the Year, Golden Venla Gala
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
NTRNZ media has been a partner to Oulun Kärpät Hockey Team since 2004.
Main coach Mikko “Mamba” Manner launched the keywords “Quick, strong and reliable” on which the whole identity of the team is built. The words also reflect the team’s spirit, playing method and level of personal commitment.
Season 2018-2019 introduces a series of videos presenting the players’ personas. The video series is created by Kärpät in cooperation with Uros Ltd and produced by NTRNZ. Like before, we’re responsible for video content in the game events, as well as graphic design in the marketing materials and the team’s social media.
Love of the Wild was the first full TV series produced by NTRNZ media Ltd, and in 2015-2016 the biggest project we had. The series turned out to be a success story right from the beginning. It is something that has never been seen before in northern Finnish content production.
Love of the Wild is a 12-part reality/lifestyle series commissioned by Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. It depicts a nature-loving lifestyle and modern-day hunting and fishing in the wild.
The first season was broadcast on YLE’s TV1 in autumn 2016. Each episode of the series was watched by an average of 15% of Finland’s population (Online Areena service + television). Each episode shown on YLE’s TV1 on Sunday evening managed to attract an average of 10% of Finland`s population.
The first season is sold world wide to over 30 countries by YLE Sales.
Facts:
Premiered in autumn 2016
12 x 28 min
Full HD
Language: Finnish, English subtitles
Broadcaster: YLE
NTRNZ media has been granted funding for internationalisation and developing our IPR business from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The themes for structural funds during 2014-2020 are sustainable development, low-carbon energy sources, gender equality and equality.
Respect for nature is one of NTRNZ’s fundamental values and reflected in everything we do. Within the project we will map out the requirements set for content by international distribution channels in the changing media industry. In addition, we strive for a Europe-wide production network.
We are growing fast. World, here we come!
