Göteborg Film Festival

Laine is a Finnish, Helsinki-based screenwriter, novelist, and an actor. He has studied literature and dramaturgy in the Tampere University and acting in the Theatre Academy, Helsinki. He is the head-writer of the Finnish-Spanish co-production Paradise and also one of the writers of the TV-series Bordertown and Bullets. He has published nine crime-novels (among others: The Elias Vitikka -series) and written theatre-plays and he does some acting too, when the time is right.