Markus Selin started his career in movie production in the mid-eighties, when he and Renny Harlin produced an international adventure thriller Born American. Because of its anti-Soviet slant, the movie was not released for distribution for over an year. Selin's next production Sunset Riders was only a modest box office hit but was awarded two Finnish Movie Awards: best actor . Since then, over 2.2 million spectators have seen Selin's productions in movie theaters. The domestic box office percentage of his productions was over 30% in 2004. Markus Selin won the "Producer of the Year" award in 1999. His movies have won altogether 9 Finnish Movie Awards and the viewer poll award for the most popular movie of the year five times. Markus Selin is the producer of Solar Films, which he founded 10 years ago. It is the leading production company in Finland in the fields of feature films and TV-drama.
Director Renny Harlin named a hotel after him in the movie Driven. "Hotel Selin" is seen shortly during the movie.
Close friend of Renny Harlin.
In 2012 Selin and his production company Solar Films produced 10 films, which is the highest amount of productions by the same producer in Finland since 1962.
