Ásdís Thoroddsen

Ásdís Thoroddsen (born 26 February 1959) is an Icelandic director, producer, screenwriter, and actress.

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ásdís.
Ásdís Thoroddsen
Born26 February 1959 (1959-02-26) (age 61)
Reykjavik, Iceland
NationalityIcelandic
OccupationFilmmaker, scriptwriter, producer, and actress
Notable work
Ingaló

Biography

Thoroddsen was born on 26 February 1959 in Reykjavik, Iceland. She started her career in film as an assistant on the set of an adaptation of Halldór Laxness's novel Le Paradis for the German channel NDR in 1979. After working at the RÚV from 1979 to 1981, she studied theater in Gothenburg. In 1983, she starred in the film Skilaboð til Söndru by Kristin Pálsdóttir. The same year, she joined the German Academy of Film and Television Berlin.[1][2]

She shot her first feature film in 1992, Ingaló, the story of a rebellious girl and her brother in an Icelandic fishing village. The film was selected for the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival.[3] She won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Rouen Nordic Film Festival and Solveig Arnarsdóttir, the actress in Ingaló, won the Best Actress Award.[4] The film is also selected for the festival of New Directors and New Films at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center in New York City in 1993.[5]

Ásdís Thoroddsen writes scripts for her own films. She also writes for radio and stage, as well as a radio play, Ástand, which was selected for the Prix Europa in 2011.[6] She founded the company Gjóla, which produces films and plays.[7]

In September 2016, Sæmundur published the first novel on Ásdís Thoroddsen, Utan þjónustusvæðis – krónika.[8][9]

Filmography

Director
  • Ingaló (1992)[10]
  • Draumadísir (1995)[1]
  • Heimsljós (short) (2003)[1]
  • Á þjóðvegi 48 (short) (2006)[1]
  • Súðbyrðingur – saga báts (documentary) (2010)[1]
  • Veðrabrigði (documentary) (2015)[1]

Acting
  • Skilaboð til Söndru (1983)[1]
  • Nói albínói (2003)[1]

References
  1. "Asdis Thoroddsen Crew Information" (PDF). icelandicfilms.info. Retrieved July 17, 2019.
  2. "Zeittransgraphie, Videolabyrinth, and Gábor Bódy". transmediale.de. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  3. Programmation d’Ingaló au festival de Cannes.
  4. "Festival Cinéma Nordique 2010". www.festival-cinema-nordique.asso.fr. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  5. "New Directors/New Films 2015". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  6. "PRIX EUROPA". PRIX EUROPA. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  7. "Gjóla Films". gjola.is. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  8. Thoroddsen, Ásdís (2016). Utan þjónustusvæðis : krónika (in Icelandic). Selfossi Sæmundur. ISBN 9789935465634.
  9. "Éditions Sæmundur". Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  10. Times, Ny (1996). The New York Times Film Reviews 1993–1994. New York Times & Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-8240-7593-4.
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