Mental Samurai Finland, premiered on channel 4 (Nelonen) in February 2020, has been selected as a finalist to compete in the Kultainen Venla-awards. Kultainen Venla -gala, organised by the Finnish Television Academy annually, recognizes the year's best Finnish television programs, their creators and performers. The Game Show “Mental Samurai Finland”, shot in Spain and produced by Empire Pictures’ Saana Räntilä, has been nominated as the best game show in Finland 2020.
Finnish actor Ville Virtanen has been nominated for best actor in supporting role in the Guldbagge 2021 awards for his role in “The Longest Day“ (“Päivä ilman yötä“), directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén and co-produced by Empire Pictures. The Guldbagge Awards is the annual and leading Swedish film awards ceremony honoring outstanding contributions to the Swedish film industry. The award ceremony will take place on January 25th 2021.
”The Longest Day” (”Päivä ilman yötä”), directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén and co-produced by Empire Pictures, will be released on November 27th in Swedish cinemas and on VOD at TriArt Play: https://triart.se/streama/den-langsta-dagen
The music of ”The Longest Day” (”Päivä ilman yötä”), composed by Andreas Mattson to the film directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén and co-produced by Empire Pictures, is now available on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7pu07KGf6tDcQRqgkeYJrr?si=XvCy9EWwT2KOoZgcZIAohQ
”The Longest Day” (”Päivä ilman yötä”), directed by Jonas Selberg Augustsén and co-produced by Empire Pictures, has been selected to the 62. Nordische Filmtage Lübeck.
The Film can be streamed during the festival 4-8.11.2020 at https://nordische-filmtage.culturebase.org/de_DE/films/der-laengste-tag.16613.