Baldvin Z

Baldvin Zophoníasson aka Baldvin Z born 18 March 1978 Akureyri is an Icelandic film and television director writer and producer He is best known for his films Jitters Life in a Fishbowl Let Me Fall and the television series Réttur and Trapped Baldvins first feature film was the Icelandiclanguage teenage drama Jitters titled Órói in Icelandic released in 2010 The film portrays the confusion and excitement of being a teenager It won the Childrens Film Award at the Kristiansand International Childrens Film Festival His second feature was the 2014 movie Life in a Fishbowl cowritten with Birgir Örn Steinarsson which won at the Edda Awards including Best Director Zurich Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and gathered numerous award nominations The film is an ensemble drama set in the year before the severe economic collapse in Iceland in 2008 It portrays people from various walks of life whose lives intersect in unexpected ways Baldvins next major project was directing the third season of TV series Réttur created by Sigurjón Kjartansson and produced by Saga Film for Icelandic national television RÚV and Netflix He directed three episodes of Baltasar Kormákurs Nordic noir drama Trapped in 2016 In 2017 he released two documentaries The first was titled Reynir Sterki Beyond Strength and described the tragic life of vagabond strongman Reynir Örn Leósson The second was Island Songs a realtime multimedia project documenting the creation of Ólafur Arnalds album Island Songs in various locations around Iceland This was Ólafurs third collaboration with Baldvin as hed previously scored Baldvins first two feature films His second collaboration with Birgir Örn Steinarsson the feature film Let Me Fall was released in 2018