Biography

One of Europe's most prolific film producers, Ingvar Thordarson has produced over 50 features, TV-series, and documentaries to resounding commercial and critical success, garnering a host of awards all over the world, including The Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Critics Award at Cannes Film Festival, inter al.

Features include: 101 Reykjavík, The Bothersome Man, Life in a Fishbowl - the winner of a record 12 awards at the Icelandic Edda Film Awards - and The Grump, Finland's highest-grossing film of 2014, not to mention the award-winning Tom of Finland and box-office champion Unknown Soldier,with over one million tickets sold in Finland alone. His latest movie is Odd Fish, is nominated for 9 Edda Film Awards.

In his native Iceland, Ingvar Thordarson has been instrumental in launching the careers of several prominent directors, including Oskar Jonasson, Baltasar Kormakur, Robert Douglas, Gunnar B. Gudmundsson, and Baldvin Z among others.

For decades Thordarson has been a vigorous contributor to the European cultural scene. Long active as a cinema and theater manager, he was the founder of Iceland's first and only outdoor drive-in cinema. As a promoter, Thordarson has been instrumental in engaging such groundbreaking artists as David Bowie, Sting, Richard O'Brien, Eddie Izzard, Prodigy, Pet Shop Boys and Kaurismaki just to name a few, in addition to promoting world-renowned photographers Gavin Evans, Leif Erik Nygårds and Ragnar Axelsson or RAX and such giants in the art world as René Block.

Thordarson's latest venture is People of Science, an innovative AI agent-driven production studio founded by him and fellow industry veterans Róbert Bjarnason and Joshua Lanthier-Welch This new venture marks his expansion into cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology within the creative industries.

Thordarson work across multiple art forms, combined with his prolific filmography, cements his reputation as a driving force in contemporary arts and entertainment. Within the industry, Ingvar Thordarson is known for producing films in the most inclement of arctic environments and far-flung locations, always on the lookout for a brand-new adventure.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous