Kristin Ólafsdóttir and Pétur Einarsson served as producers.
Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Icelandic transgender kayaking documentary Against The Current.
Óskar Páll Sveinsson’s film will open theatrically on June 25 with a New York run at Quad Cinemas, followed by a digital release on Kino Now and home video.
Against The Current chronicles Veiga Grétarsdóttir’s 2,000-kilometre solo kayak expedition counter-clockwise around the rugged Icelandic coastline.
The journey comes as Grétarsdóttir decides at the age of 38 to no longer live as a man and undergo gender reassignment.
Producers Kristin Ólafsdóttir and Pétur...
Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Icelandic transgender kayaking documentary Against The Current.
Óskar Páll Sveinsson’s film will open theatrically on June 25 with a New York run at Quad Cinemas, followed by a digital release on Kino Now and home video.
Against The Current chronicles Veiga Grétarsdóttir’s 2,000-kilometre solo kayak expedition counter-clockwise around the rugged Icelandic coastline.
The journey comes as Grétarsdóttir decides at the age of 38 to no longer live as a man and undergo gender reassignment.
Producers Kristin Ólafsdóttir and Pétur...
- 4/5/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) are leading the cast of Against The Ice, a survival movie being produced by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest) for Netflix.
The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick, adapted from the original Danish novel Two Against The Ice.
The English-language movie is being produced by Kormákur’s Rvk Studios, the Icelandic production company behind the Netflix original series Katla and newly announced Entrapped. It is also the first project from Coster-Waldau and Derrick’s fledgling production co Ill Kippers to progress into production.
In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship,...
The pic is a passion project for Emmy nominee Coster-Waldau, who has penned the screenplay with co-writer Joe Derrick, adapted from the original Danish novel Two Against The Ice.
The English-language movie is being produced by Kormákur’s Rvk Studios, the Icelandic production company behind the Netflix original series Katla and newly announced Entrapped. It is also the first project from Coster-Waldau and Derrick’s fledgling production co Ill Kippers to progress into production.
In 1909, Denmark’s Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship,...
- 1/19/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
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