The pre-production in LA, San Diego and San Francisco for BODY OF GOD, a documentary about the history of modern body modification, has been completed. Body of God tells the story of how Fakir Musafar's private experiments on his body as a 12 year old boy in South Dakota in early 1940s expanded to a worldwide phenomenon by the middle of the 1990s. A true tale in which also celebrities like Queen Elizabeth II, Jean Paul Gaultier and Alicia Silverstone have played their roles. Body of God is produced by Hakalax Productions Oy for Finnish Broadcasting Company and its current development is backed by Finnish Film Foundation.

Kinbaku - Art of Bondage directed by Jouni Hokkanen has been selected to several international film festival competitions of year 2010. It will among others compete for best documentary at this years Warzawa International Film Festival. The documentary was shot in Tokyo and is produced by Hakalax Productions and financed by Finnish Broadcasting Company and AVEK.

KINBAKU - Art of Bondage premiered at the 40th Tampere Film Festival 2010. Also the documentary I Draw, Therefore I Am was screening in the documentary competition at this festival.

I DRAW, THEREFORE I AM, a documentary about the adventurous life of Astrid Lindgren´s lead illustrator Ilon Wikland directed by Kim Finn and John Hakalax had its world premiere at the 13th Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn.

THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA, a feature documentary by director/writer Kim Finn, is currently in production. Please go to www.arrow-entertainment.com to find out more about this Hakalax Productions documentary.

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 heavy weight boxing, history of modern body modification and African sea pirates.

2008-2009 the company released five documentaries dealing with youth and children themes. All's Well That Ends Well was about school bullying. I Draw, Therefore I Am covered the exciting life story of Ilon Wikland told by herself. Rhyme and Nonsense and Once Upon a Time both dealt with leading children book writers in Europe through history, while Brave Boys depicted the reading habits of boys in different countries. Brave Boys screened at several international festivals in the US and was nominated for the Best Documentary award at the Golden Tambourine 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 Mentionat 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 Some kind 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 News corporation 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.