Friðrik Þór Friðriksson Net Worth is
$250,000

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Fridrik Thor Fridriksson started his film building carrier with some experimental movies and documentaries in the first 1980s. In 1987, he founded The Icelandic Film Company, which includes become Iceland’s most significant production company, generating Fridrikssons films aswell as dealing with additional Icelandic directors and suppliers. Through Fridriksson’s worldwide reputation the business has generated a network of internationally well-established co-production partner businesses, including Lars von Triers Zentropa & most lately, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope. Like a movie director, Fridriksson gained worldwide recognition and crucial acclaim along with his second feature _Kids of Character (1991)_ that was nominated for an Oscar as Greatest SPANISH Film. Developing up in Iceland in the sixties, Fridriksson was affected by American motion pictures but his contact with Kurosawa’s functions was of crucial importance in his decision to become filmmaker. Co-writing with two of Iceland’s most acclaimed novelists and script-writers ‘Einar Már Gudmundsson’ (Kids Of Character, Angels FROM THE Universe, Moviedays) and Einar Kárason (White colored Whales, Devils Isle, Falcons) Fridriksson continues to be acclaimed for the solid visual design of his movies and his present for stunning pictures. His movies combine a wry feeling of humour and authentic solidarity using the character types. Fridriksson’s movies are both deeply personal and also have a solid rooting in Icelandic tradition often depicting character types in the crossroads of custom and modernity. Distinctively Fridriksson’s movies have both handled a chord with regional viewers in Iceland who’ve flocked to find out Fridriksson’s eyesight of themselves (a lot more than 50% from the Icelandic populace noticed his film, ‘Angels FROM THE Universe’, released in 2000) aswell as moved viewers from a multitude of cultural backgrounds. Fridriksson’s own identification like a filmmaker is usually that of a storyteller within a custom that dates back to the authors from the Icelandic Sagas, greater than a thousand years back.

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Friðrik Dór