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How one guy used a video game and some creative meandering to grow a multi-million dollar production company.
Psychologists and social scientists have analyzed and theorized endlessly about the pleasure we get from watching something completely unpleasant. Their answers vary widely, but almost all are in agreement that it’s not logic which draws us in, it’s emotion.
Twelve years ago, Hrönn Marinósdóttir started RIFF as a school project. For her master’s thesis at Reykjavík University she decided to research what it would take for Reykjavík to host a major international film festival.
It’s not just the films that make RIFF an international film festival. Every year tens of interns and hundreds of volunteers from all across the globe coalesce at the RIFF headquarters in downtown Reykjavík.
With a title like ‘Yarn: The Movie’, it is not difficult to discern what Compass Films’ latest documentary is going to be about. So let’s start with what it is not about.
When they finished shooting the scene, Guðmundur realised that they had something special, and what began as a small experiment spiralled into a fifteen-minute short fiction. On May 25, the resulting film titled “Whale Valley” makes its debut as one of nine short films at Cannes Film Festival in France.
t’s a cold world out there. No one knows that better than the documentary filmmaker, whose job it is to portray that world, in all of its gruesome glory, to the public.