Ben Hopkins at Iceland On Screen runs an informative Q&A with The Shift Series' co-writer Jóhann Ævar Grímsson, were he talks about how the series came into being. He also mentions their new series, World's End, which will go into shooting this summer. Click here for the piece.…
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.…
TLA Releasing has acquired UK and US rights (theatrical, TV, Home Video (incl. DVD), EST, DTO, PPV, VOD, DTR, streaming, all other internet, new media, ancillary) for Baldvin Z’s critically-acclaimed teen drama Jitters (Órói). Based on novels written by Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir, the Icelandic feature has already enthralled audiences at film…
Rúnar Rúnarsson, Volcano’s writer and director, is interviewed by Director’s Fortnight website, which also shows the premiere’s standing ovation from Friday.
All three major trades have now run very positive reviews of Rúnar Rúnarsson's Director's Fortnight entry, Volcano. Screen's review has already been reported here. Hollywood Reporter calls the film "a love story observed with tenderness that never compromises its truthfulness" and Variety's Alissa Simon writes: "With…
Screen's Mark Adams writes a favourable review of Rúnar Rúnarsson's Volcano, premiered yesterday at Cannes. "It is a odd concept to construct a coming-of-age tale around a recently retired 67 year-old man, but writer/director Rúnar Rúnarsson’s moving and neatly made drama manages to do just that, driven by…
Expectations for Rúnar Rúnarsson's debut feature Volcano just got a bit higher. The film will premiere in Cannes on Friday eve and Frédéric Boyer, delegate genaral of Director's Fortnight has picked it as his favourite in an interview with Cineuropa. The film also competes for the Camera…
Teenage drama Jitters , Baldvin Z's debut feature, received the Don Quijote prize at the Kristiansand International Children's Film Festival (May 3-7). The film, which recently received a warm welcome at Toronto's Sprockets Festival, is heading for several upcoming festivals, including a market screening in Cannes.…
Gaukur Úlfarsson's documentary Gnarr, about the mayoral campaign of actor/comedian Jón Gnarr and his Best Party at the 2010 Reykjavík elections, has met with favourable reviews at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. The film will also participate at the upcoming Hot Docs festival in Toronto (April…
Distribution company Outplay has picked up rights for France, Benelux, Switzerland, Luxembourg and The Netherlands from The Icelandic Film Company to Baldvin Z’s feature debut Jitters, recently premiered internationally at Toronto’s Sprockets Film Festival. Michael Martin of Outplay negotiated the deal with Michael Paszt of Raven Banner Entertainment on behalf…
