OnTrack films
S E N I O R C I T I Z E N S
Genre: Documentary, 25 min 2009
Director: Lydur Arnason & Joakim Reynisson
Seniors: Arni Jonsson & Thordur Jonsson
Editor: Iris Sveinsdottir
Story:
Two senior citizens watch much younger men get rich in no time through business and traveling. So they take one of their own dreams back to light and travel to China to try their luck. In China they meet their contact, a member of the communist party but also a key man in the leather industry. Together the seniors teach the workers to remake their design and set it up for a mass production. But soon they realize that expectations and reality are not the same thing.
The film was shown at the Skjaldborg film festival and Short & Docs film festival in Reykjavik 2009.
T H E I C E M A N
Genre: Documentary 55 min, released 2007 and shown in the icelandic state TV, RUV
Director: Joakim Hlynur Reynisson & Lydur Arnason
Supervision: Reynir Traustason
Story:
The iceman was a captain on the biggest fishing trawler in Iceland when it coasted and he was brought to trial but acquitted after several years. Then he went to east Greenland and disappeared into the wilderness. When he was caught on MTV after killing a shark with his bare hands we took a ride to Greenland to try to find out what kind of a man he really was.
A TRUE LIFE
S H A D O W C H I L D R E N
Genre: Documentary 25 min, released 2006 and shown in the Short & Docs film festival in Reykjavik and icelandic state TV, RUV
Director: Lydur Arnason & Joakim Hlynur Reynisson
Supervision: Reynir Traustason & Thorhallur Gunnarsson
Editor: Iris Sveinsdottir
Story:
A known icelandic journalist visits the underground in Reykjavik and follows three drug addicts and experiences how easy it is to buy drugs in Amsterdam and smuggle it to Reykjavik. He admits himself to the police and is held in custody and this turns to a highlight in the media. Finally he wrote a book about his trip.
The film was awarded as the best documentary in Iceland in 2006
THE COUNT OF NORDUREYRI
Genre: Documentary 20 min, 2003
Director: Lydur Arnason
Supervision: Sigurdur Olafsson
Story:
The count of Nordureyri lives in a fishing village in the nortwest part of Iceland and is still fishing 80 years old. He tells about his life, his independence and the big difference in quality through his lifetime. The count takes the film crew on a fishing tour in his little boat and shows how to fish lumpfish, smoke it and eat it.
The film was shown at the Skjaldborg film festival in 2003 and choosen the best by the audience.
