Magnea Björk Valdimarsdóttir voted Best Female Filmmaker for ARE YOU ICELANDIC? at Barcelona IFF
Magnea Björk Valdimarsdóttir, director of the documentary Are You Icelandic?, was voted Best Female Filmmaker at the October Edition of the Barcelona International Film Festival. The festival is an international competition celebrating every three months the best and major independent films and filmmakers from around the globe.
Are You Icelandic? tells the story of four different women that have one thing in common, to have lived in Iceland for twenty years. Born in Bosnia, Poland, Jamaica and Turkey, the women all have their different reasons for ending up on this cold island in the North. Society is ever changing and we often fail to acknowledge the people who work taking care of our children and elders, build and repair houses, work in hospitals and all kinds of underpaid, yet essential jobs. Four charming women defy, define and celebrate what it means to be an Icelander of foreign origin living in Iceland toady. The documentary was produced by Júlíus Kemp, María Lea Ævarsdóttir and Magnea Björk Valdimarsdóttir for The Icelandic Film Company
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