Film Specifications
- Documentary Feature
- 50 Minutes
- Iceland
- Filmed in: Iceland
- Languages: Icelandic
- Screening Date – Sat, June 8, 2019
- Time – 05:15 pm
- Location – Stage 17 Cumulus 2 Penn Plaza (17th floor)
- Includes Q&A with actors/production team
Director Dögg Mósesdóttir
Film director and writer, president of Wift (Women in film and television) in Iceland, project manager of Doris Film in Iceland and founder and director of The Northern Wave International film festival
Dögg Mósesdóttir, born in 1979, graduated from the directing department of C.E.C.C. film school in Barcelona, Spain in 2005. At C.E.C.C. she won the best pitch award for her film “Tiempo de mente” and was awarded with a production grant to direct a 35mm short film. Her short films have been shown in a wide selection of international film festivals, including Clermond Ferrand and Brest European film festival. Her short film “Tiempo de mente” won 2nd award at the Reykjavík short film festival and her graduating film “Eyja” won two awards at Sitges International film festival, The 2008 SGAE New Author Award for best director and original score. Dögg was selected as a director to be part of the 2008 Berlinale Talent Campus. Dögg has directed a number of music videos and documentaries as well as a few commercials and promotional videos for Icelandic and Spanish organisations. Dögg worked as an assistant director for Wind production in Barcelona and worked for three years as an editor for the Tv channel Skjár Einn in Iceland and for the documentary “Me and Bobby Fischer”. Dögg is the project manager and script supervisor of Doris film in Iceland, originally a Swedish feminist manifesto that produces short films with women in all key roles of the production. She has been a jury member at the Icelandic music awards for music videos for the past three years and has served as jury member for the Icelandic Academy awards for documentaries, the RIFF golden egg awards and the Dv culture award. Dögg is the director and founder of The Northern Wave International Short Film Festival, for wich she has won a number of local and national culture awards. For the past three years she has served as the president of WIFT (Women in Film and Television) in Iceland. Dögg currently working on a 10 episode drama series to be produced by Saga Film in Iceland and she will direct part of the series. She is also working on a feature documentary funded by the Icelandic film fund and developing a feature film with her production company Freyja Filmwork that she co-owns with 3 other female filmmakers. The company focuses on female driven films.
Film Credits
- Dögg Mósesdóttir, Director
- Dögg Mósesdóttir, Writer
- Dögg Mósesdóttir, Producer