Róbert Ingi Douglas

Icelandic film director, screenwriter and cinematographer

  • film director
  • screenwriter
  • cinematographer

Róbert Ingi Douglas (born 4 June 1973, in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who made his feature film debut with Íslenski draumurinn (2000).[1] That film became a sleeper hit in the summer of 2000 becoming one of Iceland's biggest box-office hits that year. Róbert Douglas followed the success of his first film with a darker film about subtle racism in Iceland's society, A Man Like Me (2002). That film proved to be another commercial success in Iceland. Douglas then made Eleven Men Out (2005), a film about an all-gay soccer team. The film has already become a success outside of Iceland and is the director's first film to do so. Before making Eleven Men Out, Douglas made a documentary for television. This Is Sanlitun (2013), a comedy feature film set in Beijing is Douglas's latest film and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, it is Douglas's first English language film.[2]

Douglas is half Northern Irish and half Icelandic. His mother is from Iceland and his father is from Northern Ireland.[1]

Filmography

  • The Icelandic Dream (Icelandic Íslenski draumurinn) (2000)
  • A Man Like Me (Icelandic. Maður eins og ég) (2002)
  • Small Mall (Icelandic. Mjóddin slá í gegn) (2004)
  • Eleven Men Out (Icelandic. Strákarnir okkar) (2005)
  • This Is Sanlitun (2013)

References

  1. ^ a b "Robert Ingi Douglas, 1973 –". The Douglas Archives.
  2. ^ Gravestock, Steve. "This Is Sanlitun". Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.

External links

  • Róbert Ingi Douglas at IMDb
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