Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson

Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson (b. 1978, Reykjavik) came to film at the beginning of the 1990s through a love of skateboarding when he began shooting skate videos in his native Iceland. After earning a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature from the University of Iceland, he left for New York’s Columbia University where he was accepted to their prestigious film program at the School of the Arts. His graduation film Skröltormar (Rattlesnakes, 2008) took away three… (more)