Iceland comes in from the cold
The Third Name is a new Icelandic feature and the directorial debut of Einar Thor Gunnlaugsson, a graduate of the London Film School and UK resident. The film was released early in January in Isafjardarbío, the only surviving cinema situated on Iceland’s Western Fjords where Gunnlaugsson grew up, and is scheduled for release in the capital, Reykjavik.
Gunnlaugsson also wrote the screenplay of The Third Name, a “small-town thriller” that was made in Iceland with a cast of nationals, and produced by the UK’s Passport Pictures who intend presenting this feature at a number of independent festivals in the United States.
Meanwhile another Icelandic production, Nòi Albinòi by Dagur Kári, the only Scandinavian film selected for competition at the Rotterdam Film Festival, was sold to a number of companies by the German sales agent The Co-Production Office, including the and Switzerland’s Xenix Filmdistribution who secured this title just hours after its Dutch premiere. It is expected that more deals will come out of Rotterdam this week, and from next week’s European Film Market in Berlin.
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