Finnish-Canadian HANNA TOWER started her tv/ film career 25 years ago in Toronto, Canada making sandwiches on commercial and music video sets. She climbed the production ladder swiftly, jumping from the fine art of spreading Dijon, to assistant producing for the likes of Marilyn Manson, Sean Paul and big corporate commercials. She then tried her hand at Production Coordination for over a decade on multi million dollar long format projects.
Her list of credits include Showtime’s Harlan County (HOLLY HUNTER), Paramount Pictures’ The Rescuers: Stories of Courage (SELA WARD, LINDA HAMILTON, DARRYL HANNAH), MGM Studios Bulletproof Monk (CHOW YUN-FAT, SEAN WILLIAM SCOTT), Killer Film’s NY Broadway hit adaptation of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, CBS’s In The Dark, Hallmark Christmas in Montana to name a few..
She further ran the production office on such projects as Touching Wild Horses (JANE SEYMOUR), The Galindez Files (HARVEY KEITEL), Sony Pictures’ Into the Sun (STEVEN SEAGAL), CBS/Paramount’s Ultra (LENA HEADY, PETER DINKLAGE), High Life (TIMOTHY OLYPHANT) and an the international co-pro Pillars of the Earth (EDDIE REDMAYNE, DONALD SUTHERLAND, IAN MCSHANE) produced by Scott-Free and Tandem Communications.
The Production Coordinator role allowed her to forge strong and consistent contacts from A-level Artists and their agents, to executives and directors to drivers and other sandwich makers, all important pieces of any Production puzzle. She knows how and where to find them. Her friendly and non threatening approach has helped to subresolve many conflicts and has a knack for ‘putting out fires’. There is nothing slow paced in her lifestyle either.
In the documentary and reality tv world, her credits include Escape from Earth, The Coming Disasters, Act of God, Wedding SOS, and Stop Shouting at Me, for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel and Channel 4. She soon realized this is where her heart lies
After 10 years of IATSE411 union work, she realized it was time to pursue more passion-based projects. She next produced a controversial documentary for WWF/TRAFFIC on the illegal tiger trade, Closing A Deadly Gateway (JANE GOODALL, GORDON PINSET) in Thailand and Burma. Just as precarious was working twice as Unit Manager for photo and video artist extraordinaire Gregory Colbert and his prestigious expedition style documentary Ashes and Snow, where she managed to organize the filming of four swimming elephants underwater on a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, despite mounting pressure from corrupt officials looking to profit from a film shoot.
Being a globe-trotter since birth and equipped with 6 European languages, she has filmed all across Canada, Miami, Chile, Hungary, Austria, Burma, India, Laos and Thailand where she ended up living for 8 years. A mother of two, a dog and a cat, she still makes great sandwiches.