Mikko Alanne

Mikko Alanne is a screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He most recently created the National Geographic Channel's upcoming global event miniseries about the Iraq War, The Long Road Home, based on the best-selling book by Martha Raddatz. Mikko previously wrote the Chilean miner rescue drama The 33, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, released by Warner Bros. He also penned the Vietnam war thriller Pinkville for director Oliver Stone, and adapted Chelsea Cain's New York Times and international bestselling novel Heartsick for television at FX.Alanne has numerous projects in development at the major studios and networks, including West with the Night for Angelina Jolie at Warner Bros. and the Chilean dissident thriller The Dictator's Shadow at Phoenix Pictures. Alanne also wrote an adaptation of John Meacham's New York Times-bestseller Franklin and Winston, slated to star Sir Anthony Hopkins as Winston Churchill.Alanne's documentary films include the upcoming The United States v. SHAC USA, and Voice of Dissent, which caused The Los Angeles Times to call for a reopening of the Robert Kennedy assassination case. Alanne also co-wrote and produced the History Channel's acclaimed Terror Strikes Moscow, about the infamous theater hostage siege in the heart of the Russian capital.A native of Finland, Alanne graduated from Ithaca College with a degree in film and sociology. A writer and activist for human rights and animal rights, he previously worked as a Historical Content Supervisor for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Show less «