Elsa María Jakobsdóttir

Biography

Icelandic director and screenwriter Elsa María Jakobsdóttir (1982) is a graduate from National Film School of Denmark in 2017. She has an extensive background as a culture journalist at the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. Her short film Megaphone (2013) won Best Icelandic Short at Northern Wave Film Festival and was nominated as Best Nordic Short Film at Nordisk Panorama in 2014. Elsa was selected by the European Film Promotion for the 2017 Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers to Follow in Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with her graduation film Atelier. Elsa has received numerous awards and prizes with Atelier. It won Iceland’s Edda Awards for Best Short Film in 2018, a Student Prize in Angers Premiers Plans Festival in France and won Best Icelandic Short Film at the Reykjavík International Film Festival in 2017.