Meet The Team

Heather is an experienced producer and one of the founders of Silver Screen. She has been working in the film and television industry in the UK since 2005 and relocated to Iceland in 2009 where she continued to produce international content.

Her productions include award-winning feature films, series and documentary films including: ‘YARN’ (SXSW 2016), ‘Of Good Report'(TIFF 2013) and ‘Future of Hope’ (IDFA 2010).

Elfar is a director and a producer and is one of the founders of Silverscreen. Elfar began producing feature films in his native country of Iceland before moving to the UK where he shifted his focus to writing and directing. He studied filmmaking at the Met Film School at Ealing Studios and trained with renowned directing coach Judith Weston at the Director’s Studio in Los Angeles.

Elfar has helped develop and make a diverse slate of indie films and his non-dialogue short film, ‘Sailcloth’, starring the late acclaimed actor John Hurt, was shortlisted for the 2012 Academy Awards Oscars and BAFTAS and won numerous other international awards. His 2nd feature film is his screenplay adaptation of the award winning novel ‘Summerlight & Then Comes the Night’ by celebrated author Jón Kalman Stefánsson, premiering in 2021.

Thordur is one of the founders of Silver Screen, and has directed several independent productions including ‘Eat, Grow, Love’ (2017) and co-directed award-winning documentary ‘YARN’ (SXSW 2016).

Thordur regularly works with international crews to service productions and offer local fixing and field producing services; clients include the BBC, Alaska TV and Firecracker Films UK amongst others.

Freyja is a producer, director and editor who studied filmmaking at Short and Docs Filmschool in Denmark as well as The Icelandic Film School. She has been working for Silver Screen since 2020.

Her first documentary ‘Underdog’ (2018) received Jury’s special mention at Skjaldborg film festival. Her credits include: ‘Everything in the end’ (2021), ‘BAND’ (2021) and ‘Summerlight and then comes the night’ (2021).