A new website, Icelandic Cinema Online, will be launched on May 23rd. This is the first site dedicated to giving online access to Icelandic films and will offer features, documentaries, short films, TV shows and other audiovisuals from and about Iceland.…
2010 was the biggest year in Iceland's film history in terms of features released (nine in total) and 2011 looks set to be even bigger (at least ten). All seems well on the surface but that isn't really the case. Public funding for films was slashed by 35% in the…
Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson's Undercurrent (Brim) was selected Film of the Year at last night's Edda Film and TV Awards. The film, which received a total of twelve nominations, won six. Dagur Kári's The Good Heart (ten noms) won five, including director and screenplay. Ólafur Darri Ólafsson was selected Actor of…
A new independent cinema, Bíó Paradís (lit. Cinema Paradise), has opened for business in downtown Reykjavik. This is the first cinema in Iceland that's dedicated to screening the latest in world cinema, and repertory cinema. It will also be the home of Reykjavik film festivals and feature a…
Director Hilmar Oddsson (December) has been appointed Rector of The Icelandic Film School. Oddsson finished his education in film directing from the Munich Film Academy in 1986 and has since been one of the most active filmmakers in Iceland. He has directed
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…
With Iceland going through tough times and film funding especially badly hit, Icelandic filmmakers are however nothing if not resourceful. This is currently epitomized in two new features, Lýdur Árnason's Rising Moon (Vaxandi tungl) and Olaf de Fleur's City State (Borgríki), set to start filming very…
Director Ragnar Bragason (Mr. Bjarnfredarson) was selected the chairman of The Film Directors Guild Iceland at the Guild's annual General Meeting last Friday. Director Fridrik Thór Fridriksson steps down as chairman but stays on the board. Other board members are Silja Hauksdóttir, Hilmar Oddsson and Óskar Jónasson. Mr.…
Director Gísli Snær Erlingsson has been appointed Head of Singapore's Puttnam School of Film, Lasalle College of the Arts. Erlingsson, a director of multiple-award winning features such as Benjamin Dove (trailer)and Ikingut (trailer) has been based in Tokyo…
On the eve of the Edda Awards ceremony Iceland Cinema Now interviewed Pálmi Gudmundsson, Channel 2‘s (Stöð 2) Vice-President of Programming, about the station‘s success with original fiction series in the last few years and the road ahead.…
