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Anton Máni- JMP Ragnheiður Erlendsdóttir - ZIK ZAK Hordur Rúnarsson - Glassriver Hilmar Sigurðsson - Sagafilm Bryndís Jónatansdóttir - Record Iceland
Baltasar Kormákur - RVK Studios ABOUT ANTON MÁNI SVANSSON
Hordur Runarsson producer and co-owner of Glassriver has long-standing experience in the industry as a producer, specialising in international co-productions, sales and financing. Spearheading and driving the international finance- sales- and marketing advance of the company, he has also participated in the development of several projects and served as a producer or executive producer on all Glassriver’s productions e.g. Black Sands, Journey, Fractures, Ordinary People (season 1-4), My Funeral and Manners. ABOUT HILMAR SIGURÐSSON
Anton Máni Svansson co-founded Join Motion Pictures in 2007 with the goal of forging close working relationships with talented writer-directors, a dynamic that has resulted in over 160 international awards for films which have been sold to over 60 countries and premiered in competition at A festivals around the world, including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Toronto and IDFA. Titles include HEARTSTONE, WINTER BROTHERS, and A WHITE, WHITE DAY. Svansson is an EAVE 2014 graduate, was Iceland’s 2017 Producer on the Move in Cannes, and won a Lorens Award for Best Producer in Goteborg Film Festival the same year. ABOUT HORDUR RUNARSSON
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Hilmar Sigurðsson is the CEO of Sagafilm. He has a wealth of experience in management in the creative industries in Iceland, Italy and Denmark. Most recent projects include The Minister, The Flatey Enigma and two of the largest cinematic projects to be done in Iceland, the animated feature films Legends of Valhalla– Thor and Ploey–You Never Fly Alone. Hilmar long served as Chairman of the Icelandic Film & TV Academy and SÍK, the Association of Icelandic Film Producers.
