Audience Awards!

Our short film, the satirical When Rabbits Fly, just won the Audience Awards at the prestigious short and animation film festival Encounters.

In it's 18th year, Encounters showcases some of the world's best animation and short films. It's the UK's leading short film festival, and we are of course very excited to not only to have been a part of the festival, but also to have won the audience awards.

Check out the festival and the smiling winners here: http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/encounters-2012-award-winners.html

See more at www.helgijohannsson.com

"A director to watch"

My short film, When Rabbits Fly, which I wrote and directed along with Halldór R. Halldórsson in 2011, just got selected to the prestigious Encounters Short Film Festival in Bristol, UK. 

The festival has been called “The UK's leading competitive short film festival", attracts around ten thousand people each year and features around 200 shorts and animation films. 

That's of course great news, but it gets better, as we also got selected to the Future Encounters:

"Future Encounters is a showcase of 10 filmmakers whose work demonstrates a distinctive cinematic and/or artistic vision. We believe they are all talent to look out for in the years ahead."

A great honor indeed, and we (my co-director and the producer) will be showing our pretty faces and meeting others at the festival from the 19th to 23th of September. Be sure to check us out if you are in the area, I promise we'll be nice and not hostile. 

*For more info about the film, check out the link to the left, or go to www.whenrabbitsfly.com