MIDPOINT Intensive Iceland selects four feature film projects
A total of four feature film projects have been selected for this year's MIDPOINT Intensive Iceland. The four projects will participate in a 2-day workshop in Reykjavik starting this weekend, on March 10-11.
The participants are teams of writers, directors and producers who are working on their 1st or 2nd feature film – and they are:
Angel Dust – writer Bergthora Snaebjornsdottir, director Marteinn Thorsson & producer Gudrun Edda Thorhannesdottir
Exit – writer Nina Petersen & producer Lilja Osk Snorradottir
Happy Crappy '95 – writer Thorey Mjallhvit & writer/director Dogg Mosesdottir
Quake – writer/director Tinna Hrafnsdottir
The workshop will for the first time be run by Gyula Gazdag. Apart from being an acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker in his own right, Gazdag is the Artistic Director of Sundance Directors Lab since 1997, and advisor at Script Station of the Berlinale Talents since 2006. Variety in 2010 named named him one of the ten best film teachers in the US.
The workshop is supported by the Icelandic Film Centre, Bio Paradis and the Stockfish Film Festival, which runs parallel to the workshop.