DREAMLAND
Dirt! The Movie tells the story of humans' relationship with dirt. Four billion years of evolution created the dirt that is the lifegiving source for all forms of life on Earth, including humans. Dirt has given us food, shelter, fuel, medicine, clay, flowers, resilience and color—everything needed for our survival. For thousands of years we humans realized our close connection with dirt and the rest of nature. But over time we have lost that connection.
2009, USA, 80 min.
Prod. / Dir.: Bill Benenson, Gene Rosow
Script: Gene Rosow, Linda Poutt, Laurie Benenson
Music: Jorge Corante, Ludovico Einaudi
Sound: Michael Kowalski
Edit.: Jonathan P. Shaw, Brian Singbiel
Thorfinnur Gudnason
Thorfinnur Gudnason is a documentary filmmaker being Iceland's most established filmmaker in the field. He has made award winning documentaries with National Geographic, TBS, ARTE, ZDF, NRK, TVP, Discovery Europe etc. Gudnason graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1987. He began his career working for the Icelandic Broadcasting Company and worked for years as a cinematographer, editor and producer. In the early nineties he started making his own documentaries. His second film, Woodmouse - Life on the Run essentially a love story between two mice trapped at an Icelandic farm, is his most critically acclaimed film internationally, receiving many awards and broadcasted around the world. His third film Lali Johns, about a homeless small-time criminal in Reykjavik, broke all records for documentary attendance in Icelandic cinemas, and received the Edda Award for Best Documentary. In Dreamland he teams up with author / director Andri Snaer Magnusson for the first time delivering an epic film about a nation standing at cross-roads, and again breaking records for attendance in Icelandic cinemas.
Filmography
Hosay (1993), Woodmouse - Life on the Run (1997), Lali Johns (2001), Grand Rokk (2003), Running with the Herd (2004), Dreamland (2009).