Mikko Alanne is a screenwriter, producer, documentary filmmaker, and the President of Los Angeles-based Finngate Pictures. An activist for both human and animal rights, Alanne is best known for writing Oliver Stone's Vietnam drama Pinkville.

Alanne most recently penned director Renny Harlin's war drama Georgia, and adapted investigative journalist Adam Penenberg's auto safety scandal expose Tragic Indifference for Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas. Alanne also wrote adaptations of New York Times bestsellers Franklin and Winston and The Long Road Home for upcoming films. Up next is The Perfect Moment, a biopic of the controversial artist Robert Mapplethorpe, for director Ondi Timoner.

Alanne's documentary films include Voice of Dissent, which caused The Los Angeles Times to call for a reopening of the Robert Kennedy assassination investigation, and the History Channel's acclaimed Terror Strikes Moscow, about the infamous theater hostage crisis.

From 1999 to 2004, Alanne was a Historical Content Supervisor for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Blog Entries by Mikko Alanne

Where is the real Al Gore and what have you done with him?

Posted November 14, 2009 | 03:43 PM (EST)


As a left coast liberal, it pains me to say this, but someone has to: Al Gore's persistent refusal to engage in a real discussion about the impact of meat production on climate change is starting to severely hurt his credibility as a spokesman for meaningful solutions.

To me,...

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Jonathan Safran Foer - America's #1 Terrorist?

12 Comments | Posted October 30, 2009 | 05:23 PM (EST)


With the publication of Jonathan Safran Foer's captivating and powerful book, Eating Animals, much has been said and written about his undercover investigative work, which gives America a view inside the hidden world of factory farms.

What has not been commented on, however, is the disquieting fact that under...

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Meat the Truth

41 Comments | Posted September 24, 2009 | 06:20 PM (EST)


This is not another doom and gloom piece about how eating meat is destroying the planet, I promise.

But Ecorazzi senior editor Michael Parrish DuDell's recent blog about environmentalists partying with beef tartar got me thinking: If people know about the massive global damage caused by meat production,...

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A Hate Crime You Won't See in Statistics

Posted January 6, 2009 | 02:33 PM (EST)


You may not have heard of 24-year-old Nathan Runkle. Even if you haven't, you've probably seen the startling undercover images shot inside the California egg industry last year. Those were filmed by Nathan's organization, Mercy for Animals. Nathan started the group in 1999, when he was just 15 years...

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When "Disagreement" Becomes Murder

Posted December 26, 2008 | 11:40 PM (EST)


Some people seem genuinely puzzled by the uproar over Obama's choice of anti-gay activist and megachurch pastor Rick Warren as inaugural speaker. It's just words, they argue, free speech, what's the big deal? Obama himself said of Warren: "We can disagree without being disagreeable."

The problem, as many commentators have...

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With Prop 8, Loving Should Be Everyone's Guide

Posted October 29, 2008 | 02:02 PM (EST)


On November 4, California voters will face the choice of whether they wish to amend our state's Constitution to take away the existing right of same-sex couples to marry. The passage of Proposition 8 would mark the first time in our state's history that the Constitution has been amended to...

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