Commercial for the Icelandic insurance company Vörður filmed in spring 2012. Everything a normal family owns was placed on the floor which had been painted yellow. The purpose was to question whether people were accurately assessing the value of their homes.

Campaign: Do you know what you own?
Director: Torfi Agnarsson
Music: Biggi Hilmars
Production: On The Rocks Production

Kexverksmidjan

TV comedy show produced for the Icelandic national television (RUV) in the summer of 2011.

The biscuit factory filmed both in the main studio but also used apartments in the vicinity for shooting.

Writers: Gísli Rúnar Jónsson and Carola Ida Köhler

Producer: Gunnlaugur Helgason

Norwegian popp singers Atle Pettersen and Rex recorded a music video in January 2012. The video was all recorded inside Atlantic Studios in two days.

Director: Gus Olafsson

Producer: Elísabet Thoroddsen

Artistic director: Haffi Haff

The making of video shows well the possibilities within Atlantic Studios:

Amazing - Atle Pettersen & Rex

Artistic director Haffi Haff prepares musician Rex

When Böddi returns to his home village, in the North of Iceland, after 10 years of academic life in Germany he sets out to change the mindset of the local people. Through his blog he preaches highbrow ideals mixed with Viking Era romanticism which both amuses and confuses the locals.

Rokland used both the former Nato hospital for hospital scenes and local bar for bar scenes. Both locations are within 500 meters of the main studio building.

Original title: Rokland (Stormland)
English title: Rokland (aka. Stormland)
Genre: Black Comedy, Drama
Language: Icelandic

Director: Marteinn Thórsson
Scriptwriter: Marteinn Thórsson
Main cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Lára Jóhanna Jónsdóttir
Cinematographer: Philip Robertson
Editor: Valdís Óskarsdóttir
Sound design: Gunnar Árnason
Music: Sigtryggur Baldursson
Producer(s): Snorri Thórisson
Co-producer(s): Einar Sveinn Thórdarson
Production company: Pegasus Pictures
Website: www.rokland.is

The Deep

On a cold night in March 1984, a few miles off the South Coast of Iceland, a fishing boat sank with it all its men. One of the crew members miraculously managed to survive, by swimming to shore. After five hours in the ocean, the exhausted young hulk washed ashore, only to find himself on a deadly, uninhabited lava field. The film depicts his journey and how he survived through the aftermath.

Ocean scenes were shot at the Atlantic Studios using the available swimming pool. Local harbors were also used for filming boats at sea.

Original title: Djúpið
English title: The Deep
Genre: Drama
Language: Icelandic

Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Scriptwriter: Jón Atli Jónasson, Baltasar Kormákur
Main cast: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Björn Thors, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Thorbjörg Helga Thorgilsdóttir, Thröstur Leó Gunnarsson, Walter Geir Grímsson
Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Sound design: Kjartan Kjartansson
Producers: Agnes Johansen, Baltasar Kormákur
Co-producers: Egil Ödegaard
Production company: Blueeyes Productions
Co-production company: Filmhuset Produksjoner AS
National sales & distribution: Brimar ehf
Website: www.blueeyes.is

Inside Atlantic Studios.

Today Atlantic Studios is officially open for business. Located in a freshly renovated building at the recently abandoned US military base by Keflavík International Airport, it’s only five minutes away from the Air Terminal and about half hour’s drive from the capital.

The studio building features a 2.220 sqm. sound stage with spacious production support areas and a 7.000 sqm. studio lot. The facilities are aimed at international and local filmmakers alike and by far the biggest of its kind in Iceland.

Atlantic Studios offers access to a swimming pool for underwater filming, a cinema, a typical American high school gymnasium and to various street locations in the vicinity. In the area is also a small supermarket, a gym, a nightclub and a golf course.

The Good Heart (2010)

Written and directed by Dagur Kári.
Starring Brian Cox and Paul Dano.
Produced by Zik Zak Filmworks.

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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (2009)

Directed by Júlíus Kemp.
Written by Sjón.
Produced by The Icelandic Film Company.

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The first film shot in our studio was the horror/splatter movie Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre. The story centers around a group of tourists who go whale watching, but after an accident and a rescue they face a horrible ordeal on an old whaling vessel. The whaling vessel’s gruesome interior was built in our studio as well as the interior of several other locations.