25/02/2016 - Award-winning Icelandic directors Baldvin Z and Óskar Þór Axelsson are preparing new features

Icelandic director Baldvin Z, whose Life in a Fishbowl [+see also:
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At Reykjavik's Stockfish International Film Festival, which runs until 28 February, Sagafilm producer Ragnar Agnarsson presented the project, which he will stage with Kjartan Þór Þórðarson, Þórhallur Gunnarsson and Arnbjörg Hafliðadóttir. 

After his documentary Beyond Strength, Baldvin Z (Z for Zophoníasson) will follow ten-year-old Jón, who is one of the Icelandic kids that every year during the summer gather on a small island in the south to take part in a week-long football tournament. This time, Jón will have to grow up faster than he expected, both on and off the pitch.

Also, Icelandic director Óskar Þór Axelsson, whose first feature, Black's Game [+see also:
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Lastly, Óskar Þór Axelsson and Sagafilm producer Jóhann Ævar Grímsson are preparing to take Stella Blomkvist's thrillers to the small screen. So far, Blomkvist has been the author, narrator and protagonist of eight books about an ambitious young lawyer who takes on mysterious and often dangerous murder cases.