Tottemo Production

Narrative Studio & Art-Driven Production House

We create stories that resist silence.

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We are a narrative studio and art-driven production house working at the intersection of fiction, documentary, performance, and artistic research. Our work emerges from lived realities and imaginative ruptures, told through film, theatre, installation, sound, and text. We train AI characters with stories, memories and moral architecture that offer companion, entertainment and guidence.

Through intimate stories and bold structural reflections, we expose the fault lines of society, question the logic of systems, and explore what it means to resist, transform, or simply endure.

Founded by director and writer Anna Maria Joakimsdottir-Hutri, Tottemo collaborates with artists, institutions, and co-producers to bring forward projects that carry both vulnerability and edge.

We offer narrative consultancy, direction, workshop facilitation, and cross-disciplinary project development. Our current focus lies in immersive formats, performative research, and hybrid storytelling.

Tottemo is expanding into the development of AI-driven characters shaped by story logic, moral architecture, and emotional resonance. We train narrative agents with complex backstories and ethically designed frameworks, intended not as passive NPCs, but as reflective presences capable of guiding, provoking, or supporting users within interactive environments. These characters may draw from memory, myth, or lived experience, offering companionship, challenge, or counsel.

We partner with technology developers and platform builders who seek narrative depth and artistic integrity in their AI systems, believing that fictional beings can be created not just to simulate, but to signify.

Productions

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A Dream play

I admire Strindberg’s inner cosmos in what must be one of the earliest post-modern pieces of drama. I used the classic’s strong feministic voice and adapted the play to take place in present day Helsinki. I wanted to challenge the limit of how far I could take the story to feel completely contemporary without loosing the beautiful structure of themes in the original.

Who stands up for Alvar

In partnership with researchers from Lund University, University of Gothenburg, and Södertörn University, Tottemo Production created the short film Who Stands Up for Alvar (2024), based on real-life case studies on moral stress in eldercare. The film has been screened in municipalities, universities and public forums across Sweden and Europe, initiating vital conversations between care workers, policy makers, and students. Click here to read the Artistic Research output – Final Thesis MA in Film at HDK-Valand Gothenburg University

A Music Story – barnmusikal 80 min

I was involved in the film production at a late state. The independent production outside of national film finance had been struggling to get a musical done with partly private and partly state financed resources. In the process the film material was rejected distribution and the production had to acquire external Artistic support of me as Dramaturg and Film Director. By a total revision of the filmic material I distilled a story that was intended as a subplot and developed this into becoming the main plot.