Students from The Film School shine at the Stockfish film festival

At The Icelandic Film School (IFS), over a hundred students attend to the goddess of the arts every single day. Every year, IFS produces over a thousand minutes of quality content from the country's most promising filmmakers under the guidance of the industry's best filmmakers.

In a normal year, graduates from IFS fill over 30% of job titles in the credit lists of Icelandic movies. The results of the surveys have shown that over 90% of the students have worked in the field after completing their studies, and about 40% of those who graduate get jobs immediately and work full time in film production after completing their studies.

In this extremely successful Icelandic film year, 2023 has already become a year of one excellent movie after another, "Driving mom", "Operation Napoleon", "Wildgame", "Godland" and others to come, the famous Stockfish began festival this weekend. Current and former students of IFS were prominent among the filmmakers there.

At the Stockfish festival there is the competition named Shortfish, where the best short films compete for the title. In the short film category Dramatized material, IFS students have 3 out of 5 films.

In the Documentary short film category, our students have 3 out of 5 films.

IFS students own 60% of the artwork in this category of the Stockfish festival.

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The artists, current and former students of KVÍ, in question and their works are:

-Bylur / Óttar Ingi Thorbergsson and Fannar Birgisson

- Pop (Short Film) / Signy Rós

- Prinsipesa (short film) / Stefán Arnar Alexandersson and Kolka Heimisdóttir (Graduation film)

- Felt Cute (short film) / Anna Karín Lárusdóttir

- Introducing Dronefest (short documentary) / Elizabeth Írís Jónsdóttir

- Number 127 (short documentary) / Magdalena Ólafsdóttir

- Keep f****** going (short documentary) / Marie Lydie Bierne

This winter, IFS is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but since 2004 it has graduated over 600 students. IFS, together with The Icelandic Film Center, has become one of the two most important pillars of the film industry in Iceland.