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Directors Of Glasgow Film Fest Winner ‘The Home Game’ Discuss Crafting A Feel-Good Doc About Icelandic Soccer Underdogs
Fresh off the back of their Glasgow Film Festival award win, 'The Home Game' directors talk the challenges they faced in crafting this feel-good doc
Fast-forward to 2020 and his son Kari takes up the gauntlet, re-forming Reynir FC with a ragtag bunch of locals, including 15-year-old schoolboy rapper David Svanur Hafthorsson, 40-something big man in goal Gunnar Orm Arnarson, and former Iceland Women’s Team international Freydis Bjarnadottir, whose inclusion in the team threatens them with disqualification from the FA. Deadline sat down with directors Gunn and Sigursveinsson to talk about how they landed this charming, classic underdog tale, challenges they faced in making their first documentary feature and why, despite shooting during the pandemic, it was essential to keep Covid-19 out of the storyline. There’s the country’s journey to the World Cup in 2018 and, from a creative perspective, its film, TV and music offerings have consistently broken out to international spheres.
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