Arto Halonen (1964) is an internationally award-winning documentary and fiction film director and producer, who is known for socially strong-stance subjects.
As a tribute to his work, Halonen was awarded the Finlandia Prize in 2005, which is the highest annual cultural prize awarded by the Minister of Education and Culture of Finland. In addition, he has received the City of Helsinki Culture Prize in 2010 as only the third filmmaker ever to receive the prize. Halonen also won the Humanitarian Award of the European Union in 1998. He has also been granted the Finnish National Mental Health Prize and the Civil Action Prize of the Finnish Federation for Social Welfare and Health, and he was the first one to receive the prize from the cultural sector. Halonen is also the founder and the first festival director of Helsinki Documentary Film Festival DocPoint. During Halonen’s tenure, DocPoint became the biggest Nordic documentary film festival and one of the top documentary film festivals internationally.

Filmography:
Valik/Selected: Shadow Of The Holy Book (2007), Amends (2008), The Magnetic Man (2009), Princess (2010), When Heroes Lie (2012), A Patriotic Man (2013), White Rage (2015), Back Towards Light (2018), The Guardian Angel (2018), Antero Varovainen ja Onnenkivi (Arnold Cautious and The Happiness Stone, 2023)