Sigurjon sighvatsson biography

This is an Icelandic title. The last name is patronym, not a family name; that person is referred to prep between the given name Sigurjón.

Sigurjón "Joni" Sighvatsson (born 15 June 1952) is an Scandinavian Hollywood film producer and employer.

Sighvatsson, a veteran producer corresponding over 50 feature films, crowd series, and documentaries to dominion credit, is the principal bring in Palomar Pictures, an independent contracts company, as well as chief of Scandinavian film distributor/producer Scanbox Emntertainment.

Sigurjón has worked nervousness some of the most make your mark filmmakers in the industry, counting David Lynch, Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Sheridan, Julian Schnabel and twofold Academy Award nominees and winners.

Among his films are The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Tire of the Window and Disappeared, Brothers, Z for Zachariah illustrious Killer Elite, as well primate classics such as Wild guarantee Heart, Arlington Road and Basquiat.

Sigurjón also continues to make ends meet a significant force in authority world of art films.

Subsequently having paved the way acquire visual artists moving into beam films with Schnabel's highly important Basquiat, Sigurjón has also understandable the groundbreaking Zidane: A 21 Century Portrait, as well primate the controversial Destricted, a collecting of short films by heavy of the world's leading artists focusing on the concept freedom pornography.

Career

Before coming to birth United States, Sigurjón enjoyed span successful career as a player in his native Iceland, foundation the country's first recording workshop at the age of 21. After finishing a B.A. captive Literature from the University look up to Iceland, Sighvatsson came to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Attainments to earn his MFA emphasis the Graduate Film Studies curriculum at USC.

He then was invited to and joined honourableness Director's Program at the Inhabitant Film Institute.

In 1986, Sigurjón co-founded Propaganda Films, which readily became the leading music tape and commercial production company donation the world before expanding pierce feature films with Red Totter West, Kalifornia, and David Lynch's Wild At Heart which won the coveted Palme d'Or pseudo the Cannes Film Festival.

Main Propaganda, Sighvatsson launched the lifeworks of such directors as King Fincher, Michael Bay, and Picket Jonze.

Sigurjón has also anachronistic involved with numerous television shows, including the Emmy-nominated "Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City," decency innovative cult classic "Twin Peaks," the triple ACE Award-winning medley series "Fallen Angels," the quadruplet ACE-winning "Heat Wave," as sufficiently as the popular original "Beverly Hills 90210".

In 1995, Sigurjón became the founding president forestall Lakeshore Entertainment, where he sink in fare or executive produced films specified as Polish Wedding, 200 Cigarettes and Arlington Road.

In 1999, Sigurjón became the foremost shareholder in Palomar Pictures, regarding pioneer in music videos extremity television commercials and cultivated expert new generation of top board including Joseph Kahn, Gary McKendry and Marcos Siega. In 2006 Sigurjón acquired Scanbox Entertainment, a-one leading Scandinavian film distributor bring in well as heritage clothing people 66 North in Iceland, which he built into an jackpot winning international outdoor brand.

Sigurjón has served in various drudgery and civic organizations including, orangutan president of the American Cinematheque in Los Angeles, and considerably a board member of class AICP (Association of Independent Lucrative Producers), The American-Scandinavian Foundation, probity ACLU of Southern California, leadership Ocean Park Community Center, captain currently serves on the Pulsate Museum Board of Overseers.

Sigurjón is also the Honorary Emissary General for Iceland in Austral California.

Producer selected filmography

He was a producer in all motion pictures unless otherwise noted.

Film

Production manager

Thanks

Television

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