🎬✨ WELCOME TO AN INDUSTRY DAY AT RITZ ✨🎬
For professionals, students, and anyone interested in the audiovisual and creative fields!
🎤 Host & Moderator: Nicke Aldén
Get inspired and learn from a diverse group of industry professionals through keynote speeches, panel discussions, interviews, and networking.
📌 Registration deadline: 1 February (before midnight)
👉 Sign up here:
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PROGRAMME
☕ 09:30 – Registration & Coffee
🎬 10:00 – Keynote
Kjartan Thor Thordarson
Creating Magic Through Co-Productions – The Story of Sagafilm (in English)
Kjartan is co-owner of Sagafilm Iceland and CEO of Sagafilm Nordic in Stockholm. With extensive experience in international co-productions, business development, and media innovation, he has played a key role in shaping the Nordic and international film and TV landscape.
🔮 11:00 – 11:45 – Panel Discussion
Future Perspectives
Pete Paavolainen (ITV Studios Finland)
Kjartan Thor Thordarson (CEO, Sagafilm)
Anna Svensson (SVT)
🎙 Moderator: Simon Staffans
Languages: Swedish, Finnish & English
🍽 11:45 – 12:45 – Lunch
(Not included, at Ernst Salonger)
🎞 12:45 – 13:30 – Work in Progress
• Häyhä – Pekka Pohjoispää
• Becoming Marlon – Christoffer Maid
• Fairy Dust – Chad Michael Ward & Patrik Edlund
🎨 13:30 – 14:30 – Interview with Eva von Bahr
Eva von Bahr is a Swedish prosthetics, makeup, and hair designer known for her character-driven work. Together with longtime collaborator Love Larson, she has received multiple Academy Award nominations for The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, A Man Called Ove, and Dune: Part One, as well as BAFTA nominations for Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.
Her work spans from intimate Scandinavian films to large-scale international productions, always rooted in storytelling, emotion, and collaboration.
☕ 14:30 – 15:00 – Coffee Break
🎭 15:00 – 16:00 – Being On-Screen
Interviews with actress Sannah Nedergård and stuntman Otto Nyholm (in Swedish)
Sannah Nedergård is an actor raised in Vaasa and educated at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. She has recently wrapped filming on Aku Louhimies’ upcoming film Lapin Sota (premiere autumn 2026) and appears in Yle’s thriller series Kylmä kausi, as well as SkyShowtime’s Kodnamn: Annika.
Otto Nyholm is a stuntman and actor from Munsala, working on both national productions (such as SISU 2) and major international films, including Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Outside of film sets, he creates and shares content on social media.
🤝 17:00 – 19:00 – Networking at Platform
With Kvarken Film Hub
🎥 19:00 – 21:00 – Pre-Screening + Q&A: Kevlarsjäl (2026) – Maria Eriksson-Hecht
Guldbagge Award-winning director Maria Eriksson-Hecht joins us for a Q&A after the film in the caféé.
🎉 21:30 – 00:00 – Afterparty at Tørst
🎬 Movie-themed quiz & good vibes!
Check out the full programme for Ostrobothnia Film Fest 2026 here: www.filmfest.fi
Also check out other Entertainment events in Vaasa, Arts events in Vaasa, Theatre events in Vaasa.
