The Greatest Weapon of Storytellers is not just some “pink and fluffy feeling”

Sources 2 Script Development Workshop in Luxembourg, at Hotel Ecluse in Stadtbredimus/Luxembourg, 30th March – 7th April 2017. “If the purpose of films is to tell stories, then the screenwriter is the one who breathes initial life into the characters, worlds, and dramas unfolding on screen. In our world of big data, overflow of information, rapid changes, […]

Guest Speaker StGIS Inspirational Speaker Series

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]It was such an honour to speak at St Gilgen international boarding school in Austria. What a beautiful town and an impressive group of students, parents and faculty.   [x_pullquote type=”left”]The speakers programme is co-founded with […]

InnSæi in Zug, Switzerland

As part of the worldwide distribution of InnSæi, we continue to follow the film and participate in Q&As after screening. This time, it was the local film club, FLIZ (= Film lovers of Zug) in Switzerland, Canton Zug, which organised a screening of InnSæi on March 13. We were thrilled that our screening sold out FLIZ has […]

InnSæi at the Scharlatan Theater für Veränderung

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text][x_pullquote type=”left”]InnSæi screened at the fabulous Scharlatan Theater für Veränderung in Hamburg, Germany[/x_pullquote] “Normally, it is our job to inspire others, to give impulses, to make changes and new thinking. Last night we were inspired: Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir […]

InnSæi – the Sea within on Netflix

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text][x_pullquote type=”left”]InnSæi will be on Netflix U.S. from 1 February 2017[/x_pullquote] Happy New Year! We begin 2017 with the great news that InnSæi – the Sea within is now available in Netflix for Latin America – from […]

2016 í hnotskurn

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] INNSÆI – THE SEA WITHIN Heimildarmyndin InnSæi – the Sea within kom út um mitt ár, en við Kristín erum leikstjórar, ég skrifa handrit og Kristín er framleiðandi. InnSæi dreifist um heiminn á Netflix… [x_pullquote […]

2016 in a nutshell

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]INNSÆI – THE SEA WITHIN The documentary film InnSæi – the Sea within was released. Me and Kristín Ólafsdóttir directed it, I wrote the script and Kristín produced it. InnSæi goes around the world and on […]

The importance of girls’ education

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] At the Yale Chapter of Circle of Women, Annual Volunteer Summit William L. Harkness Hall, Room 203, Yale University 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM. 12. November I was honoured to be in an interactive panel […]

Changing the Global Landscape of Gender Equality at Yale Law School

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Changing the Global Landscape of Gender Equality Lessons from Afghanistan, Iceland, Kosovo, Mexico and Somalia 12:10 to 1:00 PM on November 10, 2016 Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., Room 121 [x_pullquote type=”left”]”…everything from corporate culture […]

EuroSOM hosts: Hrund Gunnsteinsdottir, Yale World Fellow

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 25px 0px 10px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] IV. Chapters: Lunch talk Thursday, November 17, 2016 11:45am – 12:45pm, Evans Hall – 2220, Yale School of Management (SOM) EuroSOM, the European club at the Yale School of Management, invited me to be a lunch speaker at the […]