Mikko Alanne

Mikko Alanne is a screenwriter, showrunner, and documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. He is best known for creating the National Geographic Channel's acclaimed global event series about the Iraq War, The Long Road Home, based on the best-selling book by Martha Raddatz. Alanne's most recent feature film is Mapplethorpe, a biopic of the controversial photographer, directed by Ondi Timoner. Alanne previously wrote the Chilean miner rescue drama The 33, starring Antonio Banderas and Juliette Binoche, released by Warner Bros. 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 Jon Meacham's New York Times-bestseller Franklin and Winston, slated to star Sir Anthony Hopkins as Winston Churchill. Alanne's documentary films include the The Animal People, executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix, 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 noted 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 A writer and activist for human rights and animal rights, he previously worked as a Historical Content Supervisor for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, now the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Alanne was chosen in 2018 by Variety as one of the year's Global Creatives to Watch