Dagur Kári born Dagur Kári Pétursson 12 December 1973 Paris is an Icelandic film director He was born in Paris France to Icelandic parents The family returned to Iceland when he was 3 years old After attending local schools as a child Kári went to Denmark for college He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 1999 having created the art house short movie Lost Weekend The film won 11 prizes on the international festival circuit Karis first feature film Noi the Albino Nói albínói 2003 won several international awards His second film Voksne mennesker Dark Horse 2005 was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival In 2008 he finished his first Englishlanguage film The Good Heart starring Americans Brian Cox and Paul Dano and French actress Isild Le Besco He is also a member of the band Slowblow He featured their music in Nói albínói In December 2011 it was announced to produce a drama film Rocketman which eventually became Virgin Mountain with Baltasar Kormákur and Dagur Kári was set to direct the film In January 2013 it is again announced that film will be produced by Kormákur with his partner Agnes Johansen Denmarks Nimbus Film will coproduce the film Films production started in February and will be filmed in the end of 2013 is expected to release in 2015
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