Sisu production

Sisu production is a Canadian media and film production company, founded in 2013 by Jaana Hein and Robin Ingle. The company offers customized film production, animation and photography services to independent clients. It maintains a studio and corporate office space in downtown Toronto.

Services and Areas of Work
Sisu Production operates in various areas of film production and provides a range of media production services, from idea generation and development to full-scale production services. The company tailors its services based on specific content requirements and has produced commercials, training videos, photography, documentaries, and other media.

The origin of the name "Sisu Production" comes from the Finnish word sisu, which means strength, endurance, and determination.

Notable productions
The company’s first production was a video feature for the 2013 International Travel & Health Insurance Conference (ITIJ) event in Vienna, Austria. Ingle International won the ITIJ Global Insurer/Underwriter of the Year at the ITIC Industry event in Barcelona, where the video was showcased. In 2013, Sisu Production produced video features for the educational sector at the Canadian Association of Public Schools – International (CAPS-I) Conference.

In 2014, Sisu Production collaborated with the Canadian Bureau of International Education at their annual conference in Ottawa, Ontario, providing video coverage of the event. The company also worked with CreativeMornings to produce a short film. That same year, Sisu Production covered the story of Roya Shams, an Afghan teenage girl funded by a Canadian charity campaign to obtain secondary and post-secondary education in Canada. Additionally, Google Canada collaborated with Sisu Production and Hand Eye Photography to produce two marketing films.

In 2014 and 2015, Sisu Production produced a promotional film for Enactus Canada, a Canadian non-profit foundation.

In 2016, Sisu Production won third place in TVO's short documentary contest for "I am a Doctor", directed by Jaana Hein. The film explores the disparity between the job market Canada promotes to immigrants and the actual job opportunities available.

Sisu Production has also collaborated with Novus Health, a health navigation platform, to create bilingual animations and commercials, as well as with VarageSale, a Canadian startup, to produce website animations.