About

I am an independent filmmaker and photographer and have worked on various projects in Iceland and abroad. Prior to that I worked as a journalist and in TV production for Channel 2 and the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service (RÚV).

In 2022, I was an Icelandic Red Cross & IFRC delegate for Ukraine and Impacted Countries Crisis as audio visual officer in Poland and Hungary in 2022. Prior to that I was a communication coordinator and a delegate of the Icelandic Red Cross and IFRC was on board Ocean Viking, a search and rescue ship in the Central Mediterranean. I have also been deployed as civilian public affairs officer for NATO´s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan (2018-2019), NATO´s enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Lithuania (August 2019-April 2020) and NATO´s Multinational Brigade in Latvia (August 2023-Nov. 2024).

I have a MA degree in TV documentary production from University of Salford, UK and BA in social anthropology from University of Iceland. I also have a diploma in media and journalism and a diploma in Russian, both from University of Iceland. My feature documentary I Want to be Weird (2015) was nominated the best Nordic Documentary at film festival Nordisk Panorama in 2015.