Isold Uggadottir is an award-winning Icelandic filmmaker based in NYC and Reykjavik. Her directorial debut, Family Reunion, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 and subsequently traveled to over 100 film festivals, collecting multiple festival awards, as well as an Icelandic Academy Award nomination for Best Short Film. Following this, Uggadottir continued to enjoy success with her short films Committed and Clean, which were both honored with the Icelandic Academy Award for Best Short Film (2010 and 2011). The films traveled to multiple festivals around the world, including the BFI London Film Fest, Aspen, Palm Springs, Hamptons and beyond. Uggadottir’s fourth short film, Revolution Reykjavik received the honor of premiering at New Directors/New Films 2012 (ND/NF) presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the MoMa, as well as the Telluride Film Festival. This was followed by a nomination for Best Short Film and Best lead Actress at the Icelandic Academy Awards 2012. Revolution Reykjavik was also honored with the Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award for Best Female Director at Columbia University, from where Uggadottir earned her M.F.A. in directing and screenwriting in 2011. Her studies were supported with scholarships from New York Women in Film and Television, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her work has also been funded by NYSCA, the Icelandic Film Centre and Frameline. Uggadottir is an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Campus and IFP/Emerging Narrative, as well as the Cine Qua Non Screenwriting Lab in Mexico & the New Nordic Films co-production market in Haugesund, Norway . Screen International named Uggadottir “one of the rising stars of Icelandic film. – She is currently in development on her first feature film, AND BREATHE NORMALLY, aiming for production in 2015.