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 Odd Fish is nominated for 9 Edda Film Awards.
Based in Berlin and Reykjavik, with deep ties to the cultural scene, Thordarson’s influence spans cinema, theater, music, visual arts, and cutting-edge technology, cementing his reputation as a driving force in contemporary arts and entertainment.
From a family lineage of female trailblazers, Thordarson draws inspiration: His great-grandmother Katrín Pálsdóttir (https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrín_Pálsdóttir) (1889-1952), a mother of twelve and member of the Reykjavík city council, established a summer residence for indigent mothers in collaboration with Laufey Valdimarsdóttir. Katrín was a member of The Mothers' Aid Society and served for years as vice-chairwoman and subsequently chairwoman of The Maternal Society. She was elected as subsitute city councillor in the 1938 Reykjavík municipal elections and served as city councillor from 1942 to 1950. Her daughter Þórunn Þórðardóttir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Þórunn_Þórðardóttir) was a pioneer in research on planktonic algae and primary productivity in the ocean around Iceland. Þórunn served on multiple working committees of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The new Icelandic ocean research vessel, Þórunn Þórðardóttir, is named after her.
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.
Was shanghaied into filmmaking by a friend who recruited him to help with a film project but then ran off to join the AFI film school in L.A., leaving the film Remote Control in Ingvar's hands. Thordarson was a guest lecturer at the London Film School and the University of Exeter, where he contributed to the MA International Film Business courses. Used to own a famous bar in Reykjavik with Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz and Baltasar Kormákur. As a journalist he interviewed NBA legend Larry Bird. In his youth Iceland's fastest runner, 800 meters. Producer on the Move at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006, EFP-European Film. In 1984 Thordarson wrote a cause célèbre bestseller “The Perfect Crime “.
Thordarson's deep ties to the cultural scene span a wide array of creative fields beyond cinema, including music production, live concert performances, theater, visual arts, modern art, and photography. His extensive experience and creative vision have made him a sought-after collaborator in the arts. Thordarson has been involved in wide range of business activities, everything from soccer to real estate and fine tech.
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.
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.
Filmography
- Odd Fish ( 2024 ) – Producer
- Top 10 Must ( 2024 ) – Producer
- Skinny love – ( 2024 ) Producer
- 12 hours to destruction ( 2023 )
- The Grump: In search of an Escort ( 2022 ) co-producer
- The very last fishing trip ( 2022 ) Associate Producer
- 2021 The Wait (co-producer)
- 2020 The Last Fishing Trip (Associate Producer)
- 2019 From Iceland to Eden (co-producer)
- 2019 9 out of 10 (Producer)
- 2019 Tuntematon sotilas
- 2018 Let me Fall, the second biggest box office movie in the Icelandic history. (producer)
- 2017 Unknown Soldier (co-producer).
- 2017 Tom of Finland (co-producer).
- 2017 The Mysteries of Greenland (producer).
- 2016 Reykjavik (producer).
- 2016 The Mine (co-producer).
- 2015 The Midwife.
- 2015 Albatross.
- 2014 Grump (co-producer).
- 2014 Live in a Fishbowl (producer).
- 2014 Mielensäpahoittaja ja miniä (co-producer).
- 2014 Albatross (producer).
- 2014 Life in a Fishbowl (producer).
- 2014 Grandad (producer).
- 2013 Autumn Blood (co-producer).
- 2013 Þetta Reddast (producer).
- 2012 Frost (producer).
- 2012 Santa's Night Out (producer).
- 2011 Mona (producer).
- 2011 Þetta Reddast (producer).
- 2010 Órói (producer).
- 2009 Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (producer).
- 2009 Hótel Jörð (short film) (producer).
- 2008 Dark Floors (co-producer - as Ingvar Thordarson).
- 2007 Astrópía (producer).
- 2006 Vandræðamaðurinn/The Troublesome Man (co-producer).
- 2006 Huldufólk 102 (documentary) (co-producer).
- 2005 Strákarnir okkar (producer).
- 2000 101 Reykjavík (producer).
- 1998 Popp í Reykjavík (documentary) (producer - as Ingvar H. Þórðarson).
- 1992 Sodoma Reykjavik.
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