Interview –
Andri Magnason reading in the Laugharne Weekend Festival
Andri Snær Magnason is participating in The Laugharne Weekend festival Friday the 3rd of April 2009. Other writers reading in the festival include Irvine Welsh and DBC Pierre.
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Dreamland – The Movie
Dreamland – a Self Help Manual for a Frightened Nation has become a film. Directed by Thorfinnur Gudnason and Andri Snær Magnason. The premier date is the 7th of April. Feature length documentary. For more information, press kit etc. go here.
Nattura – Summer 2008 – press release from Bjork.com
The Icelandic environmental documentary Nattura–Summer 2008 will be released exclusively on iTunes on March 10/ Today (One Little Indian) via an exclusive digital distribution partnership with E1 Entertainment Distribution U.S. The film focuses on the current environmental issues that face Iceland and includes interviews with Björk along with many other well-known Icelandic figures. All proceeds from the documentary will benefit the Nattura Campaign.
Directed by Charlie Lightening, Nattura–Summer 2008 focuses on the proposed plans to increase the use of aluminum smelters as a means to harness Iceland’s natural energy. As an alternative to these industrial practices, the documentary offers innovations and attempts to reinvigorate a larger discussion and debate on these key issues. In addition to Björk’s commentary, the film features interviews with well-known Icelandic politician and environmentalist, Ómar Ragnarsson, as well as Andri Snaer Magnason. Magnason is the author of the award-winning, best-selling book, Dreamland: Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation, which offers a detailed critique of the Icelandic government’s current energy-harnessing practices.
The documentary continues Björk’s close involvement with the Nattura Campaign, which was founded in an effort to generate alternative, sustainable and eco-friendly ways to utilize Iceland’s natural resources. In Björk’s own words, “It is now more important than ever before to emphasize a respect for nature…I believe that profits, technological advances and working together with nature can all go hand in hand. None need to be sacrificed at the expense of the others.”
For more information on the documentary and the Nattura Campaign please visit www.nattura.info or www.bjork.com.
ICELANDIC ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
NATTURA–SUMMER 2008 OUT MARCH 10 ON iTUNES
Dreamland – the movie
We have finished editing the feature length documentary film, Dreamland, based on Dreamland – a Self Help Manual for a Frightened Nation. The new trailer will be ready soon and posted on this website. Dreamland is about a small nation seeking big solutions. How cold war politics lead to choices taken today. How Iceland has been trying to be a player in the eyes of superpowers and how this can lead to a grand collapse. The premier date will be decided next week. The documentary has been three years in the making and made for the cinema, as a large part of it is shot on 35mm film. Many of the areas have now disappeared or are under 2oo meters of cold water.
