Ulla Junell-Pulkkinen

Background

About Ulla Junell-Pulkkinen

Ulla Junell-Pulkkinen is a Finnish-Canadian Producer and Executive with an extensive track record working with international brands around the world. They are also an entrepreneur with a passion for storytelling and business & workflow development. Ulla’s work has spanned over twenty feature films and TV series in Canada and Europe, including both commercially successful animation blockbusters and critically acclaimed art-house films. The series produced by them has been a long-time kid's top 10s on Netflix and leading international TV channels, reached billions of views worldwide, and being distributed for almost every country in the world. In addition, they have worked on news, sports and current affairs shows for the Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE. They have experience from 2D, 3D, live action, features, TV length series and digital shorts.Ulla served in many key roles at Rovio Entertainment, where they were part of the team that built the global phenomenon Angry Birds. Together with some of Rovio's other key team members Ulla did a management buy-out for Rovio's animation studio and publishing agency, co-founding Ferly in 2017. Ferly is an entertainment company specializing in storytelling through TV, film, apps, publishing and licensing.In 2018 Ulla went on to found Yellow Animation Ltd, a Vancouver-based animation studio to produce series Momolu and Friends. In 2020 Ulla joined Guru Studio to produce the #1 preschool series PAW Patrol from Spin Master. Currently they work at TVO as Manager, Content & Media Management.In their free time, Ulla channels their energy into extreme sports, hiking and sitting in front of computer until the early hours of the morning playing Civilization VI. Ulla´s family includes two daughters, a husband and two very spoiled cats.