Sari Volanen is a Commissioning Editor at Yle (Finnish Broadcasting company). She works in YLE’s Film Team, producing short films mainly with Finnish independent filmmakers and producers. She is in charge of a strand called “New Cinema” on the Yle Teema channel. New Cinema is an open-end strand on Saturdays at 23:00. The main focus of New Cinema is on cinematic, surprising, original and quirky films. The films in the strand are acquired through co-productions (main producer Finnish), pre-buys (international) and acquisitions.