Backyard by Árni Sveinsson, a lively portrayal of the current Reykjavik music scene, took the audience prize at the fourth Skjaldborg Documentary Festival (May 21-24). Over twenty new Icelandic documentaries were screened in addition to three docs by Faroese director Katrin Ottarsdóttir, the festival’s guest of honour. A record number of guests descended on the Patreksfjördur fishing village in the northwest of Iceland this year to enjoy a unique blend of documentaries, nature and seafood feasts.
Probably the coolest documentary festival you've (n)ever heard of - at least north of our currently mischievous volcano; Skjaldborg Documentary Film Festival will for the fourth year running screen new Icelandic documentaries at the upcoming WhitSunday Weekend in the small fishing town of Patreksfjördur,…
Prolific filmmaker Olaf de Fleur is currently shooting a new film, City State and has two others, feature Polite People and documentary Adequate Beings, in post. Check out the new teaser for City State.
A new documentary on the international falcon trade, Feathered Cocaine by Thorkell Hardarson and Örn Marinó Arnarson, recently at Tribeca Film Festival and now at Toronto's Hot Docs, has received attention in the world media due to its assertion about Osama bin…
Iceland's most popular film in recent years, Ragnar Bragason's Mr. Bjarnfredarson, is out on DVD today (with english and german subtitles). The film got wide attention when it outperformed Avatar (see ICN comment here) during its first weeks of cinema run around last Christmas, and has…
The largest production service companies, such as True North, Pegasus Pictures and Saga Film, are reporting cancellations of their foreign clients' planned projects in Iceland due to misapprehension about the current situation in relation to the volcanic activity in Eyjafjallajökull. It seems that some…
Dagur Kári's The Good Heart received the audience award at the recent Off Plus Camera Film Festival in Krakow Poland, and additionally a $10.000 award towards distribution (by Gutek Film) in Poland. The film is now out in the United States and the American critics' take can…
