Today, as public broadcaster RUV holds its annual general meeting, pressure mounts on its Director, Páll Magnússon. A new report criticizes his handling of affairs and also RUV's form of business, a large meeting last night in the presence of the Culture Minister and…
A large meeting last night, held by the Left-Green Party, with party members the Culture Minister and RUV's Chairman of the Board present, demanded the immidiate removal of RUV Director Páll Magnússon from office. Many members of the film community attended the meeting and a number…
"RUV's recent cuts confirm RUV's moral bankruptcy towards its duties", says in a statement from the Actor's Union relased today, and it adds: "It's highly inappropriate, considering the current circumstances, that open and democratic governance does not apply at RUV, but only the will of a politically selected…
Published Wednesday, a report by a committee commissioned by the Ministry of Culture last spring to look into RUV's affairs, criticizes the "almost totalitarian power of the Director over programming, staff and policy" and finds the arrangement "undemocratic and untransparent in a company which has an…
A reader's poll in the latest issue of Filmmaker Magazine has selected editor Valdís Óskarsdóttir as the editor of the decade for her work on Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Ms. Óskarsdóttir received a BAFTA award for the same film in…
Culture Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir expresses doubts about RUV Director Páll Magnússon‘s decision to stop buying programming from independent producers in an ICN Interview. She says it‘s clear that his decision does not conform to the existing Service Agreement between RUV and the government and she will discuss the issue with…
A meeting last night in downtown Reykjavik of over 300 filmmakers, the majority of film professionals in Iceland, rejected RUV Director Páll Magnússon's plans to slash programming of local features, docs and TV series, calling it "cultural terrorism" and urged RUV's controllers to resign if they are not…
In a statement released today, a large number of Icelandic film and programme makers, including key directors, producers and writers, denounce public broadcaster RUV's decision to slash programming of local docs, features and TV series and call for immidiate action. "The government and RUV's management seem to have…
In a statement released Friday, pubcaster RUV's Director Páll Magnússon, announced huge cuts in programming due to budgetary demands. The cuts relate mostly to local documentaries, TV series and features, leaving in-house programmes such as news and current affairs with some cuts but light entertainment and sports mostly…
Today sees the official opening of Atlantic Studios by Keflavík International Airport, a 2.220 sqm. sound stage with spacious production support areas and a 7.000 sqm. studio lot. The facilities, located only five minutes away from the Air Terminal and about half hour's drive from the capital, are…
