Snorri Thórisson, CEO of Reykjavík-based production outfit Pegasus Pictures (Icelandic line producer of Game Of Thrones), has revealed details of the company’s latest feature projects.
One of the most ambitious projects the company is hatching is The Falcons.
The feature will tell the remarkable story of the Winnipeg Falcons, the ice hockey team made up almost entirely of Icelandic immigrants that won Canada’s first ever gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. These immigrants had been treated as outsiders but became national heroes.
The Canadian partner is Julia Rosenberg and Thórisson is putting The Falcons together as an Iceland-Canada co-production using the treaty between the countries.
The film is based on the book When Falcons Fly by David Square, which Thórisson has now re-optioned. An earlier attempt by Thórisson to make the film foundered but the Pegasus boss is confident the film will go ahead this time round. The feature...
One of the most ambitious projects the company is hatching is The Falcons.
The feature will tell the remarkable story of the Winnipeg Falcons, the ice hockey team made up almost entirely of Icelandic immigrants that won Canada’s first ever gold medal at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. These immigrants had been treated as outsiders but became national heroes.
The Canadian partner is Julia Rosenberg and Thórisson is putting The Falcons together as an Iceland-Canada co-production using the treaty between the countries.
The film is based on the book When Falcons Fly by David Square, which Thórisson has now re-optioned. An earlier attempt by Thórisson to make the film foundered but the Pegasus boss is confident the film will go ahead this time round. The feature...
- 10/6/2015
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Baldvin Z’s drama scoops 12 Edda awards.
Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti), Baldvin Zophoníasson’s multiple-narrative drama, swept Iceland’s Academy Awards on Saturday night with a haul of 12 prizes.
The annual Edda awards, hosted by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy in Reykjavík’s Harpan, saw Life In A Fishbowl’s leading actor and actress Thorsteinn Bachmann and Hera Hilmars scoop top prizes.
The feature, Iceland’s submission for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Oscar, was also named Best Film and picked up prizes including Best Director, Screenplay, Editing and Cinematography.
The multiple-narrative drama tells three distinct stories of people living in pre-crisis Iceland; a struggling single mother, an ex-footballer fast-tracking in the accelerating banking world and a troubled writer who has turned full time drunk.
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s Paris Of The North won awards for supporting actor Helgi Björnsson and supporting actress Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir.
Life in a Fishbowl (Vonarstræti), Baldvin Zophoníasson’s multiple-narrative drama, swept Iceland’s Academy Awards on Saturday night with a haul of 12 prizes.
The annual Edda awards, hosted by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy in Reykjavík’s Harpan, saw Life In A Fishbowl’s leading actor and actress Thorsteinn Bachmann and Hera Hilmars scoop top prizes.
The feature, Iceland’s submission for this year’s Best Foreign-Language Oscar, was also named Best Film and picked up prizes including Best Director, Screenplay, Editing and Cinematography.
The multiple-narrative drama tells three distinct stories of people living in pre-crisis Iceland; a struggling single mother, an ex-footballer fast-tracking in the accelerating banking world and a troubled writer who has turned full time drunk.
Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson’s Paris Of The North won awards for supporting actor Helgi Björnsson and supporting actress Nanna Kristín Magnúsdóttir.
- 2/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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