S101 ehf. Films - European Mini-Slate development

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The Mini-Slate for development will include comprehensive research, collaboration, scriptwriting, casting, location scouting, marketing, budgeting, and securing funding. The feature film Paradox by Valdimar Jóhannsson follows the story of a successful female scientist in her seventies, producing fertility medicine from mares' blood. Having reached all her goals, she still feels unfulfilled and goes on a search into the uncharted territories of dreams, which leads her to unforeseen findings. Through the story of this character, Paradox explores power dynamics, the consequences of exploiting natural resources, and the complex interplay between humans, the natural world as well as the supernatural world Shadowline the artistic documentary by Gústav Geir Bollason focuses on water and the invisible, the utopic Islands – vanishing. The contingent will always be at the horizon of the film. It is a «floating» image and thus drifts between unknown worlds and distant locations on the earth's global grid to explore different bodies of water, recent changes in them, obvious causality or circumstances and then what the eye can't see: micro-organism and metabolism, radiation as well as the human memory fragments. The primary beneficiaries are S101's creative team, with international audiences and distribution partners also gaining from the high-quality content. The projects are expected to secure strong market value, attract international interest, and enhance S101's industry reputation.