Suvi West

Suvi West (born 14 January 1982) is a Finnish Sámi director, screenwriter, and television personality. Early life and education Suvi West was born in Kittilä and spent her youth in Utsjoki's Outakoski. She received her primary education at Tampere's high school for expressive arts. As a media assistant, she studied in Inari at the film department of the Sámi Regional Education Center from 2003 to 2005. Career Suvi West's career progressed while still a student working in Inari for Yle Sami Radio and the Norwegian broadcasting company NRK as a television news and documentaries producer from 2000 to 2007. Still, the strict predetermined format of television work began to make her anxious, and she feared that it would stifle her own film narrative. Her final work in 2005 was the documentary film Vaikein niistä on rakkaus (The hardest thing is love), which humorously chronicled West's search for a boyfriend. The film was screened in Hollywood and Vancouver International Film Festival.