news from my work and projects - some written in Icelandic and some in English
InnSæi was premiered in Iceland at the Reykjavik Film Festival (RIFF) on October 6, followed by screenings at Bio Paradis for several weeks. The day after me and Kristin participated in a panel on Promoting Peace with the Power of Media, an open discussions in collaboration with RIFF, at the opening seminar at HÖFÐI Reykjavik Peace Centre in the Ceremonial …
The panelists and audience will engage in a dialogue on the power of the visual narrative in affecting opinion and igniting action in today´s world. Panelists include well renowned film director Darren Aronofsky, Syrian documentarist Obaidah Zytoon, and the directors of InnSæi – the Sea within, Kristín Ólafsdóttir and Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir. Amongst Aronofsky’s films are the critically acclaimed movie Black …
Die Kraft der Intuition Brigitte is the largest women magazine in Germany, with circulation of around 800,000 and readership of 3,6 million. Brigitte decided to dedicate their September issue to Intuition, with a 12-page dossier on the topic. We are showing InnSæi – the Sea within in cinemas in Germany this year, which started with our world premiere on 29. …
InnSæi – the Sea within was premiered in the USA at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York on 23. September. It was sold out, room filled with fabulous audience, including my entire Yale Greenberg World Fellows 2016 cohort and friends in the Young Global Leaders Forum at the World Economic Forum. “…beautiful, thought provoking and inspiring new …
we are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from and make the most of these changes Creativity is fast becoming one of the top three skills in the job market, according to the World Economic Forum. With the avalanche of new products, new technologies, distractions, useful and not-so useful information, global challenges and new ways …
Mikill heiður fyrir okkur InnSæis-stöllur að vera á forsíðu 3ja ára afmælisrits MAN Það var mikill heiður fyrir okkur InnSæis-stöllur að vera á forsíðu 3ja ára afmælisrits MAN tímaritsins í september. Þar var ferðlaginu á bak við InnSæi – the Sea within heimildarmyndinni gerð góð skil auk þess sem ritstýran Björk Eiðsdóttir tók sitthvort viðtalið við okkur Kristínu Ólafsdóttir sem …
We world premiered InnSæi – the Sea within at FilmKunst66 in Berlin on 29. June 2016, in collaboration with Mindjazz and the Icelandic Embassy in Berlin, – special thanks to Auður Edda Jökulsdóttir. The Icelandic Ambassador Gunnar Snorri Gunnarson made remarks at the beginning of the premiere and after the screening, me and Kristin were joined by Alexandra Cousteau, A National …
Hvatningarverðlaun jafnréttismála eru mikilvæg hvatning fyrir atvinnulífið að gera jafnrétti miðlægt í allri starfsemi og njóta þannig afraksturs þess í betri vinnumenningu, ánægju á vinnustað og betri rekstri, eins og fjölmörg dæmi sýna. Verðlaunin voru afhend í þriðja sinn þann 25. maí 2016, á morgunfundinum „Er pláss fyrir jafnrétti í nýsköpun?“.
Tækniþróunarsjóður fagnaði stærstu úthlutun til þessa, 800 milljónum, og bauð nýjum styrkþegum til samstarfs á vorfundi sjóðsins í maí sl. sem bar yfirskriftina Er líf án tækni?