This is the first monthly report ICN runs. It covers the period from September to mid-November. The ICN Monthly Report will from now on appear in the third week of every month and is intended to give overview of the main news of the past four weeks or so. Iceland…
THE ICN INTERVIEW: Ólafur H. Torfason, the new chairman of The Film Board. Veteran film critic Ólafur H. Torfason was recently appointed the chairman of The Film Board, whose role is to give advice and make proposals to the Minister of Culture about public policy and objectives in matters of…
The government has some explaining to do. How come it proposes a 34% cut in film funding, while only suggesting an average 4% cut in other arts funding, with none going above 6%? Yes, filmmakers are well aware of the dire financial straits we’re in. As a matter of fact,…
The 2010 Budget Bill brought bad news for the filmmaking community; the government intends to cut its funding for films by almost 34%, wiping out substantially more than all the increase since 2006. This is way above suggested cuts for other arts funding, which on average are around 4% and…
