September 16 – 19, 2019 Hyatt Regency Kyiv, Ukraine
How can a local film company develop a TV series that will be awarded at Berlinale at the creation stage? How can an actor from a small country reach the global level? All this and much more – on September 18 at KYIV MEDIA WEEK in the inspiration talk by Gisli Orn Gardarsson from Iceland.
Gisli Orn Gardarsson is a man who succeeded in a whole range of professions related to cinema and theatre. He is a popular Icelandic film and theatre actor, producer and director; one of the founders of the project Vesturport – a mix of theatre and film production company, distinguished by critics’ attention and awarded with many prizes.
The drama Children, written by him, was awarded in 2006 for the Best Screenplay at the Edda Award, the country's main movie award, bestowed by the Icelandic Film and Television Academy. A year later he, already as a producer, received the Edda Award in the Best Film category for the drama Parents.
Also in 2007 he was awarded the EFP Shooting Star at the Berlin Film Festival, which the international jury annually awards to the 10 best young European actors and actresses of the age 18-32 who have already become famous in their countries. Also in 2017, Gisli Orn Gardarsson at was named as the Best supporting actor the Edda Awards for the film The Oath. In addition, the viewers know Gisli for his role as the leader of the assassins in the Hollywood blockbuster Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010).
He has also created many sensational projects as a theatre director. For example, in 2008 he staged the famous unfinished play of German playwright Georg Buchner Woyzeck at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York: music for this performance was written by Nick Cave. And thanks to the project The Heart of Robin Hood (2015), Gisli was the first Icelandic director to stage the play on Broadway.
At the moment, Gisli as producer and director, is working on the project Black Port, a dramatic series by Vesturport, which tells about the inhabitants of a small Icelandic village whose well-being, completely dependent on fishing, collapses due to regulatory decisions of the government. Although the series is still under development, but this year it has already received the Series Mania award at the Berlinale Drama Series Days pitching.
In his inspiration talk, organized with the support of TV Channel Ukraine, Gisli Orn Gardarsson will focus on the Black Port project, and also on the specifics of Vesturport's work, which helped the Icelandic company of an unusual format to reach the international level.
In addition, Gisli will talk about the details of his working career – from theatrical to film and series production. And there’s more – he will also share his life hacks for the representatives of different professions: actors, directors, producers.
Inspiration talk by Gisli Orn Gardarsson will be held on the second day of KYIV MEDIA WEEK (September 18) from 18:00 to 18:40.
This talk is part of a range of KMW events, dedicated to the series production, and organized with the support of Ukraine TV Channel, one of the leading Ukrainian creators of series content. In 2018, more than 900 premier hours of TV series are scheduled to be aired on the channel, 440 hours of which are in Ukrainian language. Generally, in 2018, the channel will host the premiere of more than 80 TV series. In the fall season, it is about 50 premiers.
The 8th edition of KYIV MEDIA WEEK will be held on September 17-21, 2018 at Hyatt Regency Kyiv (5 Alla Tarasova St., Kyiv, Ukraine). Register here.
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