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FeaturesSet report: Baltasar Kormakur's 'The Oath'
Director Baltasar Kormakur returns to his Icelandic roots for thriller The Oath, which also sees him back in front of the camera. Wendy Mitchell reports from the Reykjavik set.
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White Night Wedding is best feature at Icelandic awards
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's White Night Wedding took best feature and six other awards at the Icelandic Film & Television Academy Awards in Reykjavik. The awards honour the local industry.White Night Wedding had been nominated for a record 14 awards. It is Iceland's official candidate for an Oscar nomination as ...
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Nordic Prize nominees include Andersson, Kormakur
Swedish director Roy Andersson's You the Living, which won Sweden's national film prize, the Guldbagga, for Best Film, Best Director and Best Script, is among the five nominees for the $70,000 Nordic Council Film Prize 2008, the largest film trophy in Scandinavia.Launched last year in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, ...
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67 countries submit titles for foreign language film Oscar
A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards.Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.Click ...
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Production - Iceland - White hot
Iceland punches above its weight in the film world, considering the number of film-makers and film-goers per capita in this small, isolated nation. The country's reputation is on the up thanks to increasingly high-profile work from the likes of Baltasar Kormakur, whose acclaimed thriller Jar City was launched in the ...
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NewsWorking Title on board for development of Kormakur's Vikingr
The $60m epic will likely shoot in the next two years.
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Vinterberg comes home to Celluloid Dreams
Celluloid Dreams has acquired world rights to Thomas Vinterberg's WhenA Man Comes Home and Baltasar Kormakur's White Night Wedding.The latter is a comedy-drama set in Iceland at the time of the midnight sun. The film is produced by Agnes Johansen and Kormakur and has already been a hit at home.Further, ...
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NewsIceland submits Reykjavik-Rotterdam for Oscar race
Iceland has chosen Oskar Jonasson’s Reykjavik-Rotterdam as its foreign-language Oscar submission this year.
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FeaturesToronto 2016: Special Presentations
The full line-up of Toronto’s Special Presentations strand, with details on each title including sales contacts.
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