Birgitta Sigursteinsdóttir

Birgitta Sigursteinsdottir is an Icelandic director/actress/writer who began acting at the young age of 5. She is a Film studies graduate from the University of Iceland and also studied documentary filmmaking as an exchange student at University of Sussex. In 2015 she got a master's degree in Culture and communication (a mixed media course) again from University of Iceland. Birgitta also takes various short courses that have to do with either filmmaking or acting, both in Iceland and abroad. Birgitta has directed various short films such as Each to Their Own (2012) and the one minute films Minning/Memory (2013) and Alda/Waverly (2014). She has also directed a couple of feature length documentaries and has been experimenting with different documentary genres, for example by making extreme participatory films but usually she mostly focuses on observational cinema. Birgitta is the director/head writer of an Icelandic acting group called Leikhópurinn X (Acting Group X) founded in late 2014 with the purpose of using improvisation to do character based projects such as screenplays, sketches and TV shows. The first project Leikhópurinn X is working on is a TV show called Hótel Hamingja (Hotel Happiness).