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Arnfinnur Danielsson, who is now putting his final touches on his graduation film from The Film School, says that the piece is about a director in search of artistic truth, as he words it.

„My film is about a young woman struggling with her self image and learning about her place in life through dance,“ says Maria de Araceli Quintana when she is asked to describe her graduation project from The Film School.

The final project of Rosa Vilhjalmsdottir and Gunnar Orn Blondal at The Film School is called "It´s her", and tells the story of Tryggvi, a simple boy who lives with his mother and is kind to all.

„Orvar is a manager at a fish processing plant, living in comfort with his wife who is pregnant. Orvar has a younger brother that is overly protected by their mother, especially after their father perishes at sea."

We are now at the end of what must be the most important weekend each semester, graduation weekend. The films were shown on friday evening in Laugarasbio and the graduation ceremony was held on Saturday. Unfortunately the students were forced to wait over the New Years as a result of Covid, but finally got to thoroughly enjoy the fruits of their labor.

The deans graduation speech, on graduation day February 20th

A new student council for the spring semester of 2021 has been chosen for Kinema, the student association of The Icelandic Film School

Natan Jonsson graduated from Directing and Producing in 2012 and has taken on many exciting projects since. His short film “Bars” is accessible on Youtube now and he will be filming his first feature length film this summer.

The Icelandic Film School is now open to Chinese students of film making as a compelling option, with an agreement that The Icelandic Film School and Study Iceland, Iceland Academy Inc. signed today.

Each year the Icelandic web industry celebrates a job well done and awards those that have excelled in that category.

Nominations for the Edda awards have been announced and among the chosen are many of our students

Two new positions within The Icelandic Film School have now been filled. Hlin Johannesdottir has been recruited as managing director where the main focus will be on employee- and financial management. And Anna Thorhallsdottir has been charged with leading the school's quality council.

Iceland’s entry to Eurovision this year has premiered and among the stellar folks that had a part in making the video for Dadi Freyr and Gagnamagnid, are quite a few students of The Icelandic Film School

Work is being done by a stringent plan at The Icelandic Film School as we move towards a University certification. Yesterday we held a meeting regarding the titled positions within the academic personnel, and in attendance were the employees that have put themselves forward for the first four titled positions; that is of lecturers, docents and professors at the school.

Thorsteinn Bachmann is not only an incredibly versatile actor that has tackled various roles, both the human and animal kind, but also a highly valued teacher for numerous years that has led a new generation of actors towards their dreams.

As things are going well in terms of vaccines and other types of infection control in Iceland, we here at The Icelandic Film School head into this fall semester fully confident that we can offer all our students full in class teaching