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SPOTLIGHT: SOUND DESIGN
Each edition of Producer’s Day will spotlight one other branch of the industry. In 2022 we celebrate sound designers and we have a conversation about their line of work. Come meet our musical and audio talents!
AMANDA VILLAVIEJA
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BJÖRN VIKTORSSON
GUNNAR ÁRNASON
NICK CATHCART JONES
Amanda Villavieja worked as a sound technician and sound designer in more than fifty fiction and documentary films. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona with a Master in Creative Documentary from the Pompeu Fabra University. Teacher of sound design, Amanda has given sound seminars at different film festivals such as Curtocircuito in Santiago de Compostela and at the Muestra de cine de Lanzarote.
Björn Viktorsson is an independent sound designer and sound mixer. Since 2001 he has worked in all fields of sound for film and television, be it pre-production, production, post-production or sound design. He has been involved in the sound of numerous films, TV series, documentaries and commercials. Björn studied audio engineering at SAE (School of Audio Engineering) in Glasgow. After studying, Björn worked at RÚV (The Icelandic National Broadcast Company) and then for Cinema Sound ltd. in Iceland.
Gunnar Árnason founded his sound company “Upptekid” in 1987 which is still running. In 2017, he started building his new studio in Kópavogur, with one booth, one small edit studio and in January 2021 he got Dolby Atmos Feature Certified Studio license for the big studio. That was the seventh Scandinavian studio to receive this certification. For over 40 years, Gunnar has worked in all kinds of sound departments: answer machines, audio books, music, documentary, video games, TV drama series and feature films.
For over forty years Nick has dedicated his career to the recording/ production/mixing of all things audio. He started working at Mayfair Recording Studios. In 1984 he founded Clock Studios, in London. Back to Iceland, Nick remained freelancing in music and record production until 1997 when he accepted a job offer at Sagafilm. In 2010 he chose to leave Sagafilm and form his own audio post-production company called Nýbúi. Nick has also built up several relationships with international productions.
