Panu Aaltio (born 29 January 1982) is a Finnish film composer. He was educated at the Sibelius Academy and University of Southern California and established himself as a film composer with The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008). He has received the International Film Music Critics Association Award for Best Original Score for a Documentary twice, for Tale of a Forest (2012) and Tale of a Lake (2016). Panu Aaltio was born in Nurmijärvi on 29 January 1982.