Alumna Elli Toivoniemi (Media Production 2005-2009) producer for award winning film at Jussi Gala 2020.
Producer Elli Toivoniemi (Media Production 2005-2009) was nominated at the Jussi Film Awards 2020 for best picture for the feature film Seurapeli (Games People Play). The film was awarded two Jussi awards at the Gala for best screenwriting and male supporting actor. It received a total of eight nominations.
Games People Play had its world premiere at the Gothenburg Film Festival Nordic Competition in Sweden:
“Games people play is a Comical chamber play about old friends in crisis with turning 40 who reunite for a long summer night packed with unsettled love and unforgiven wrongs, directed by Jenni Toivoniemi.
Licentious years of youth have been overtaken by middle-class convention when a group of hipster-clad friends from long ago arrange a surprise party for Mitzi in an imposingly beautiful house on the beach. But during the celebration more and more feelings from the past well up, and when Veronika (Laura Birn) brings a Swedish Hollywood export (Christian Hillborg) to the party, he has a hard time grasping how all the old friends’ crisis-ridden relationships fit together. After directing a number of short films that garnered attention (The Committee, GFF 2017) and being a driving force in the collective behind Force of Habit, Jenni Toivoniemi makes a feature film debut as director with a spot-on comedy about society for the twenties.”
Göteborg Film Festival (goteborgfilmfestival.se)
The film has already won the Baltic Film Prize and the Prize of the Friends of the Nordic Film Days Lubeck at he Nordische Filmtage Lubeck, 2020.