Katla Sólnes

Katla Sólnes is a wry and aesthetically driven writer-director from Iceland, represented by True North Talent with a diversified background in filmmaking. She is also a screenwriting teacher at the renowned NHSI film program. She is a graduate of Columbia's illustrious MFA film program, Screenwriting under the tutelage of Katherine Dieckmann, and recently won Columbia’s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Screenwriting Competition with her feature, which is currently in development with funding from the Icelandic Film Fund, titled ‘Eruption’. Her other short films ‘Make a Wish, Benóný’, ‘Whim Rules the Child and Weather the Field’ and ‘With the Arrival of Spring’ have screened and won awards at festivals worldwide. She’s currently in post-production of her thesis short ‘Embla’ a feminist fable fully supported by The Indian Paintbrush Fund.