Short Film ”A Chamber Play”, directed by Viktor Granö and line produced by Empire Pictures’ Annalisa Schmuckli, has been selected to the official competition of Aubagne Film Festival in France. The festival will take exceptionally place online between March 30th and April 4th 2020.
https://festival2020.aubagne-filmfest.fr/
”The Longest Day” (”Päivä ilman yötä”), co-produced by Empire Pictures, got its world premiere on 26th of January 2020 in the ”Voices Main Programme” of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). Empire Pictures was present at the festival, celebrating the premiere together with director Jonas Selberg Augustsén, actress Bianca Kronlöf, composer Andreas Mattsson, delegate producer Andreas Emanuelsson and executive producer Jan Blomgren.
Produced by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä, the new and exciting game show ”Mental Samurai Finland” will premiere on channel 4 (NELONEN) in february 2020. “Mental Samurai Finland” was shot in Spain, in the HUB of Warner Bros. International Tv Production. “Mental Samurai” is a highly succesful new format from the United States and Finland is the first country to adapt this game show in Europe.
https://www.nelonen.fi/ohjelmat/mental-samurai-suomi
“The Mole” has been nominated as the best adventure reality show in Finland 2019. The first season of this international success format was launched in Finland in January 2019 on channel 3 (MTV3). The show was shot in Mexico and produced by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä. The prestigious Venla gala will be held in Helsinki, January 2019.
https://www.mtv.fi/sarja/myyra-33006317
Japanese Feature Film Snowflower (”Yuki no Hana”), starred by Japanese superstars and line produced by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä, got its world premiere in Tokyo February 2019 and quickly gained more than a million viewers in Japan. The film also premiered in Finland in 2019. As the movie shows beautiful Finnish design and city-culture as well as the wilderness of Lapland both in summer and in winter, the movie is predicted to greatly boost tourism from Japan to Finland.
