Olaf de Fleur

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Florence Pugh, Olaf de Fleur, James Cosmo on set
Olaf in 2009 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Olaf de Fleur (real name: Ólafur Jóhannesson born 1975) is an

scriptwriter and producer
.

Early life

Fleur was born in

Buddhist
way.

Film career

Olaf wrote and directed his first feature film,

Malacañan Palace's Kalayaan Hall.[1][2][3] Furthermore, it has won “Best Feature” and “Showtime Vanguard Award” at the New York LGBT International Film Festival and as well as the “Special contribution to cinema language” award at Cinemacity
in Serbia in 2008. The film depicts the life of Raquela, a Filipino transgender girl, born in the wrong male body. She dreams of escaping her life of internet porn and hustling in Cebu, Philippines, for a fairytale life in Paris. But first she must take an unexpected detour.

Olaf released his second feature, The Higher Force, in 2008. It is a comedy that was well received by the national audience. The Higher Force premiered internationally at the AFI Film Festival in November 2008 and shortly after it was included in the official selection at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and traveled to several other international film festivals. The film tells of a low-life debt collector becomes the main man in his gang through twists and turns where he makes his fellow gang members believe there is a newly returned crime lord coming to take back his territory, when in fact this mystery person is a mere lonely and deranged school teacher.

In 2011, Olaf and his producer Kristin Andrea released one documentary called

Reykjavik International Film Festival
.

Polite People is a black comedy starring Stefán Karl Stefánsson who portrays a desperate city slicker engineer who cheats his way into a small farming community by pretending to know how to re-finance the community's slaughterhouse and save the town, not knowing that he's walking into a local turmoil of small-town politics and general misbehaving. Recently, the film received 4 nominations at the Icelandic Film Awards (The Edda) including best script.

Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Zlatko Krickic this Nordic crime drama shares similar spirit of the Millennium series or the Pusher trilogy. City State received 9 nominations for the Icelandic Film Awards (The Edda) and won for Best Sound Design. Although unreleased internationally, City State is scheduled for a Hollywood remake with director James Mangold
.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "www.screendaily.com, The Band's Visit takes top prize at Cinemanila fest". Archived from the original on 2020-04-06. Retrieved 2012-02-21.
  2. ^ Cinema One Originals movies dominate 10th Cinemanila award rites. abs-cbnnews.com (2008-10-21)
  3. ^ "bworldonline.com, Arroyo awards winners in 10th Cinemanila festival". Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2012-02-21.

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