Icelandic Series Mania Winner ‘Blackport’ Brings Political Drama, Severed Limbs to Göteborg
variety.comJD Linville Already celebrating the success of a top win at Series Mania, as well as 80% national audience approval, RÚV’s Icelandic series “Blackport” has now been nominated for 2022’s 6th Nordisk Film and TV Fond Prize at Göteborg.
The prize will be presented during the film festival’s industry conference TV Drama Vision on Feb. 2, and serves to reward exemplary writing in Nordic drama series.“Blackport,” which follows Iceland’s 1980s fishing quota power struggle, is tightly paced for action, and the three nominated writers pull no punches, leaving only their characters’ arms to the cutting room floor.
Two “Blackport’s” writers – Gísli Örn Gardarsson and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson – direct and star in the series. Writer Mikael Torfason (“Made in Iceland,” “The Valhalla Murders”) is also nominated for the prize.
Variety spoke with all three of the nominated writers ahead of the Göteborg Film Festival.How well known is the story of “Blackport” among Icelanders?
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