Short animation film ”Vagina Confinement”, written by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä, has received a scriptwriting grant from AVEK, the center of promotion of audiovisual culture in Finland.
Short film Oslo (2012), directed by Luis Ernesto Doñas and produced by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä, will be presented in “Cine Cubano in Cuarentena” (“Cuban Cinema During the Confinement”), a programme directed to distribute Cuban cinema during the COVID-19 and curated by Cuban filmmaker Marcel Beltrán.
Oslo has been previously selected to more than 40 international film festivals, winning dozens of awards (e.g. award for the Best Latin-American Short Film in the prestigious Viña del Mar film festival 2013), making it one of the most successful Cuban short films of all time.
https://www.eldiario.es/cultura/Cine-cuarentena-peliculas-censuradas-olvidadas_0_1007549601.html
https://www.facebook.com/cuarentenacinecuba/posts/110193910614562
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