The first shooting trip for The Pirates of Somalia, a feature documentary (HD / 90 min) by director/writer Kim Finn, was completed in January 2009. Please go to www.piratesofsomalia.com to find out more about this Hakalax Productions documentary.

The shooting of Kinbaku - Art of Bondage, a documentary about the Japanese bondage culture in Tokyo directed by Jouni Hokkanen and produced by John Hakalax, is completed and the post production of it has now started.

Allt blir bra? (aka Loppu hyvin, kaikki hyvin?), a documentary about school bullying directed by Kim Finn and John Hakalax, was aired by Finnish Broadcasting Company on the 19th of February.

Hakalax Productions Oy was founded in Helsinki 1992. The company produces TV-programmes, documentaries, ads and music videos for international as well as domestic release.

The company currently produces several TV-documentary productions for international distribution. The films are dealing with as varying themes as Japanese bondage tradition, murder stories set in the glamrock world and African sea pirates.

In 2008 the company released two documentaries (Rhymes and Nonsense, Once Upon a Time) about leading children book writers in Europe through history and one about the reading habits of boys (Brave Boys) , which screened at several international festivals in the US and was nominated for the Best Documentary award at the Golden Tamourine festival in Russia.

In 2007 Manhattan Rendez-vous was awarded Best of Festival at Berkeley Video and Film Festival, the biggest independent film festival in Northern California. The documentary with music composed by the guitarist of Brand New Heavies follows the underground sculptor Kim Simonsson as he makes his way into the art establishment of Manhattan. The film screened also the same year in the competition for Best Documentary at Raindance Film Festival, the biggest independent film festival in the UK. The same year Marketing Psychosis of the 3rd Degree was awarded with a Honorable Mention at Golden Tambourine Festival, one of the leading documentary festivals in Russia.

In 2006 the cinema documentary RIOT-ON! (directed & written by Kim Finn and produced by John Hakalax) became the FIRST Finnish made documentary EVER to be aired prime time by the BBC in the UK. RIOT-ON! won the Grand Festival Award at Berkeley Video and Film Festival, the biggest independent film festival in Northern California. In 2005 the film was awarded with a Special Jury Commendation at Raindance Film Festival, the biggest independent film festival in the UK. The same year the film was short listed for the Grierson Award, which is the most prestigious documentary prize in UK. Worldwide hits like Super Size Me and Metallica Somekind of Monster were together with RIOT-ON! among the eight films short listed for Best International Cinema Documentary. The film unfolds the darkly comic story of a Nokia and Newscorporation financed business disaster from the over-hyped mobile start-up era.

In 2004 Hakalax Productions delivered two documentaries for the international market: Raiders of the Lost Kung fu, a documentary revealing the dark side of original kung fu in China, and Sobhraj - or how to be friends with a serial killer, a documentary about one of the most notorious killers in Asia. Both productions were financed by Finnish Broadcasting Company. Sobhraj – or how to be friends with a serial killer has been sold to more than 35 countries, while Raiders of the Lost Kung Fu has been aired by Canal Planète in more than ten French speaking territories and released on DVD in Australia and New Zealand.