Arró is an innovative filmmaker with over a decade's worth of experience in the industry. His diverse skillset ranges from directing, writing to cinematography, as exemplified in his 2023 atmospheric horror feature film debut, "Delirium." The technical knowledge, honed during his successful career as a cinematographer, has greatly shaped his directorial style that masterfully combines technical prowess with emotional depth.

Born to diplomat parents, Arró's international upbringing across cities like Washington D.C., New York City, Moscow, and Strasbourg has enriched his storytelling, enabling him to connect with diverse audiences. His global perspective was further cultivated through professional experiences in various countries, such as Japan and Taiwan. He wrote and directed a TV pilot for NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, and worked on multiple TV shows for Icelandic television.

In summary, Arró is a well-rounded, skilled filmmaker with a proven record of international experience and a passion for storytelling. His ability to weave technical proficiency with gripping narratives make him an asset to any project. With an adaptable style and a global mindset, he continues to bring unique, compelling stories to life.

Ben Frost is a composer, sound artist, and director. His work includes the studio albums Theory of Machines(2007), By The Throat (2009), AURORA (2014), The Centre Cannot Hold (2017) and Scope Neglect (2023) and spans an array of other forms including live performance and collaborations in dance, theatre, and film. Ben has composed several scores including the Palme d’Or-nominated Sleeping Beauty by Julia Leigh, the cult series Dark, 1899, and Raised By Wolves with Ridley Scott. 

Frost was awarded a fellowship from the Rolex Arts initiative in 2011 which resulted in years of mentorship from electronic music pioneer Brian Eno. Frost has collaborated extensively with the Irish Artist Richard Mosse to produce three critically acclaimed multi-channel video and sound installations: The Enclave (2013), Incoming (2017) and Broken Spectre (2022). 

Ben has written and directed two Operas: The Wasp Factory (2013) and The Murder of Halit Yozgat (2021), a collaboration with London-based research agency Forensic Architecture. He is a frequent member of the American rock band Swans. In recent years Frost has expanded his work to include several large-scale installation projects, focussing on exploitation of the pure physicality of sound.

Bianca Hallveig is a multi-talented actress who has made various appearances as an extra in Icelandic films. She is half Jamaican and half Icelandic and her passion for diversity is at the forefront of everything she does. She brings to each role a blend of cultural diversity, versality, authenticity, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. She has an unwavering love for storytelling and a background in art and design that only enriches her craft. In 2022, she was appointed Creative Director for the “Worlds Collide” project and her work for New York Fashion Week was showcased on a billboard in Times Square.

Bríet is an award-winning Icelandic singer known for her songs Esjan, Feimin(n) and Rólegur kúreki. She is a multi-instrumentalist who writes and performs her own songs but also loves to collaborate with others. She is a visual, artistic performer with deep meaning and connections to her artistic choices. She has directed her own videos and been the art director of music short films and most of her live shows.

Most of her musical work is done with her longtime musical partner, writer and producer Pálmi Ragnar Ásgeirsson. Her album Kveðja, Bríet was selected as the Album of the Year at the 2021 Icelandic Music Awards, with multiple wins since then. That same year, Bríet won Singer of the Year and Lyricist of the Year. She has been extremely successful in the Icelandic market with interest from all over the world.

Elfar is an Icelandic born screenwriter and director. He studied directing at the Met Film School and he holds an MA in Screenwriting from Goldsmiths University in London.

His short film Sailcloth, starring the late Oscar-nominee John Hurt, received numerous international accolades and was shortlisted for the 2012 Academy and BAFTA Awards.

Elfar’s directorial debut feature End of Sentence, a father-and-son road movie, starring Oscar-nominee John Hawkes, Logan Lerman and Sarah Bolger, had a worldwide release in 2019 to critical acclaim.

His latest feature film Summerlight & Then Comes the Night was recently awarded Best Nordic Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and received 5 nominations for the Icelandic Film and Television Awards, Edda, including Best Picture. In the film Elfar directs an all Icelandic ensemble cast from his own screenplay adaptation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s celebrated novel. 

Elías K-Hansen began his filmmaking career as an actor in Iceland in his teenage years, most notably starring in the award-winning feature films Jitters (2010) and Life in a Fishbowl (2014). That is when his passion for screenwriting became evident and lead him to study the craft abroad at AFI in Los Angles. In Los Angeles, he also worked on a psychological thriller feature at Blumhouse Productions alongside actor/producer Harvey Guillen, and later an eight-part series at Netflix.

Upon teaming up with producer Búi Baldvinsson of HERO Productions in Iceland, Elías returned to his home country to set up a team for the feature film …and Anne which is currently in pre-production. Current projects involve Dýrð í Dauðaþögn, a feature film co-written with director Baldvin Z, Batterý, an eight-part series in development for Channel 2 in Iceland, where Elías is a Head Writer, and the second season of the Nordic Noir drama Black Sands, that starts filming in the fall of 2023.

Alongside these projects, Elías continues to serve as a script consultant on numerous projects for different production entities either in Iceland or abroad.

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Erlendur Sveinsson is an award-winning filmmaker from Reykjavík, Iceland. He graduated from Columbia University School of the Arts in the summer of 2018 with an MFA in Film Directing. His short films Kanarí & Thick Skin received back-to-back nominations as Drama of the Year at the Vimeo Staff Pick Awards & were selected to play at over 100 film festivals around the globe.

He is well known for his ambitious and unique music videos with notable artists such as Laufey, Aron Can, Víkingur Ólafsson and Ásgeir. His music video for Ásgeirs Snowblind was awarded Music Video of the Year at the Icelandic Industry Awards, stockfish, in 2023 and was selected for the prestigious music video category at Camera Image in Poland. His music video work has segwayed him into the commercial space where he has worked with clients such as AstraZeneca, Bank of Iceland & 66North.

Erlendur is a Fulbright Scholar, a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumni and was selected to attend Nordic Talents in 2019 and LES ARCS Talent Village.

Helgi is a writer and director who has been working in film, TV, and commercials for the last 15 years. He began his career as an editor on Iceland's premier investigative journalism show, where he developed a passion for sharing genuine stories of real people. He has directed videos for top labels in Europe and the US, clients including Academy Award winners and the legendary band Joy Division. Named a “Director to Watch” at UK’s leading short film festival, he recently created a TV series shot in Iceland and the Faroe Islands and a documentary about one of Iceland’s most celebrated bands. He is part of the directing duo Helgi & Hörður who have been working together for the last 10 years in both advertisement and narrative work.

Helgi is currently in development of his first feature film.

Hörður is a photographer and a director who has been working in advertisement, media, film and TV for the last 18 years. He began his career as a photographer working for various media outlets in Iceland and abroad. His main field in photography has been portraits and advertisements for the last 10 years where he’s shot for the biggest brands in Iceland as well as the likes of Yoko Ono, Michael Moore and Sigur Rós. He has won many awards during his career and just recently got awarded "Best Photograph of the Year, 2022" at the Press Photographs of the Year Award exhibition.

He branched out as a director 10 years ago and has directed videos for top labels in Europe and the US, clients including Academy Award winner Marketa Irglova and the legendary band Joy Division. He has directed countless advertisements for various Icelandic brands. He has now turned his focus towards films and TV and recently created a TV series shot in Iceland and the Faroe Islands for Sjónvarp Símans and a travel documentary also for Sjónvarp Símans.

Höðrur is part of the directing duo Helgi & Hörður who have been working together for the last 10 years in both advertisement and narrative work.

Jördis was born and raised in East Berlin. A star graduate of ETI Schauspielschule-Berlin/Europäisches Theaterinstitut, she rapidly found her way to the stage as an actor and singer. Jördis has performed all over the world, from Schaubühne Berlin to London’s Royal Opera House.

Jördis has starred in several television series and feature films in her native Germany including the acclaimed Miss Sixty, in which she memorably portrayed a mischievous art student and inappropriate young mistress. She is equally well known as the uncompromising young detective in Germany’s favourite primetime drama series Kommissarin Lucas. More recently she has appeared opposite Denis Quaid and Richard Dormer in the acclaimed Scandi-Noir series Fortitude on Sky Atlantic/Amazon.

Jördis speaks several languages and flawless English with a unique trans-Atlantic accent. She has training in weapons and boasts a variety of other skills including Le Coque movement, classic and modern dance, horseback riding, plus she sure can hold her own with a sword. 

Jörundur Ragnarsson is an actor, writer, and director. He graduated with a BFA in acting from The Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2006, and in 2016 he graduated as a director/screenwriter from the Film MFA program at Columbia University. He is a well-known actor in Iceland having starred and performing in several TV series, shorts and feature films. Alongside his screen acting career, he has worked in theatre, having performed in around 30 theatre productions for independent theatre groups, The National Theatre of Iceland and the City Theatre of Reykjavík. For his acting work, Jörundur has received multiple awards and nominations at EDDA (The Icelandic Film Academy Awards) and GRÍMAN (The Icelandic Theatre Academy Awards).  

Jörundur’s writing career started in 2007 when he co-wrote and starred in the TV series NÆTURVAKTIN (2007), which was followed up by two other series, DAGVAKTIN (2008), FANGAVAKTIN (2009) and a feature film BJARNFREÐARSON (2009). After that he co-wrote and starred in the TV series HEIMSENDIR (2011). All these projects won multiple awards, including various EDDAs. His latest work as a writer is the TV series AFTURELDING which premiered in April 2023. 

Jörundur has directed one short film, HJÓNABANDSSÆLA (2014). The film premiered at the Montreal Film Festival and won Grand Prix for best film. After that it received multiple awards at film festivals around the world and an EDDA as the best Icelandic short in 2015. Other directing work includes a music video to the song SKRIFTARGANGUR (2020) by Teitur Magnússon and several commercials for Icelandair, Vodafone, UNICEF and others while he worked at the advertising agency Íslenska auglýsingastofan in the years 2016-2017. There he also worked as a copywriter and creative director.

Katla Sólnes is an inventive, wry, aesthetically driven, and distinctly feminine writer-director with a diversified background in advertising, mostly scriptwriting, and editing. She is currently in her thesis years at the illustrious MFA film program at Columbia. Her first short, Að Vori or With the Arrival of Spring, went to festivals all over the world, winning awards in directing in Detroit and St. Petersburg. Her current short, Make a Wish, Benóný starring A24’s Lamb’s Björn Hlynur is in post-production. She has two shorts in development, one a textured environmental film about the rising sea levels, The Old Woman and the Sea, starring Edda Björgvins (fully funded by TheIcelandic Film Fund), and her thesis from Columbia, the fantastical and feminist fable Embla supported in part by the Indian Paintbrush Fund.

Deeply curious, an avid reader, and an aestheticist through and through, Katla is a young native Icelandic writer/director with a unique touch.

Rúnar Ingi is an Icelandic born filmmaker and commercial director known for his work with Land Rover, Lidl and Volvo, among many others. His projects have garnered global awards and nominations from Epica, CameraImage, Webby, Roy, Edda, and the Icelandic Ad Awards. His work has been featured in industry standard-bearers such as Shots Magazine and Creativity Online.

Since arriving on the commercial scene with a 2012 Nike spot featuring triathlon athlete Sarah Reinertson, his advertising and narrative films have developed a reputation for impactful storytelling with a distinct emotional and visual style. Rúnar Ingi’s fascination with improvisation, found moments and poetic, real-life imagery can be seen throughout his work.

Rúnar Ingi drew on inspiration from childhood memories to create his short film,Apology, in 2016. It premiered at the Reykjavik Film Festival that same year, and he’s now developing the short into a feature length project.

Siggi was born on a dark winter night in iceland and often jokes about that darkness somehow still lingering in him.

In his work he likes to study characters that isolate themselves from others, emotionally or geographically, maybe mostly to understand himself.

Siggi’s shorts have been nominated for an Icelandic Academy Award and screened at festivals around the world. He got his MFA at CalArts after doing residencies at La Fémis in Paris and DFFB in Berlin. He currently works and lives in Reykjavík, Iceland where he's developing two feature films, a 'Northern' that takes place in post-colonial Greenland and a mythic period piece shedding a light on another side of the US occupation of Iceland during WWII.

Styr Juliusson is an Icelandic actor and model who has been working in film, commercials and fashion for 15 years. He is a versatile performance artist whose career spans across many genres in art and filmmaking.

Starting out as a dancer during his teenage years, Styr practiced ballet, contemporary dance and breakdancing, eventually moving towards modelling and acting. At the age of twenty, he starred in his first feature film Falskur Fugl, for which he received a EDDA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. 

Additionally, Styr has worked internationally as a model, working for fashion houses like Balenciaga, Sacai and Etude, and has walked both the Paris and Tokyo Fashion Weeks on numerous occasions. 

Experimental art installations, video works and different dance performances are also a part of his curriculum, many of which have been on display in Reykjavík art galleries thorough the years. 

Reykjavík and Los Angeles are his home base since 2019, where he continues to study and work as an actor in short films, commercials and stage theater.

Svend was born and raised in Nuuk, Greenland. He graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from Aalborg University and started a rapid carrier within the business segment: he worked 10 years for a commercial airline, 5 years as the CEO of the National Energy Company, and he was the Permanent Secretary at the Premier’s Office for the Government of Greenland. In 2015, he opted out and started an engineering company working within the infrastructure segment.

Svend joined Truenorth as the Country Manager for Greenland in 2015 and has supported many different productions locally on behalf of Truenorth. In 2020, he curated a 2-week introductory program for the director and writer of the acclaimed Danish political drama series Borgen, to introduce them to the real issues between Greenland and Denmark. As a result, the writer and director offered Svend a leading role in the series as the antagonist. This was Svend’s initiation into acting and has given him very positive critique and results. Svend later accepted a role in the acclaimed international series True Detective, Season 4, as one of the lead characters, playing Jodie Foster’s husband. Acting seems very natural for Svend as he has a very good appearance and face for the camera.

Svend speaks Greenlandic, Danish and flawless English. He’s a seasoned hunter and fisherman, holds an international certification in boating for vessels up to 21 meters long without any motorsize limitations. He’s also a very good skier, both alpine skiing and cross country. He drives ATV´s and snowmobiles and likes to do expeditions of all kinds. He thrives in harsh and cold climates. He has done crossfit since 2012, has an athletic build and is a former martial arts practitioner.

Vivian Ólafsdóttir is an international actress from Iceland who has worked extensively on both film and television. She played the leading role in the action movie Operation Napoleon (2023) alongside Iain Glenn, Jack Fox, Wotan Wilke Möhring and Ólafur Darri. She was also the lead in the horror comedy It Hatched (2021) and is known for her award-nominated supporting actress role in Cop Secret (2022). She participated in the television series Black Sands (2021, 2024) and will play the leading female role in the upcoming crime series 112 Reykjavík (2025) and comedy film Guðveigar (2025).

Apart from Icelandic, Vivian speaks fluent English and German. She is well experienced when it comes to physical challenges and difficult situations on set. She did most of her stunts on Operation Napoleon. She loves a challenge and is a very creative actor. 

- 2019 Vimeo best Shortfilm KANARI, leading role

- 2022 Eddan Icelandic Film Awards - nomination for best supporting female role Cop Secret

- 2024 Eddan Iclandic Film Awards – nomination for best leading female role

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