About
Ursus Parvus is an independent film production company in Reykjavík, founded in 2015 by producer Hlín Jóhannesdóttir. We make emotionally fearless films and stand behind the directors, often women and first-time voices, who tell them.
Named for the Little Bear, the constellation that cradles the North Star, the company makes films that fix on something true and refuse to look away. The stories are intimate and often local. Their reach is not: the work travels from Sundance and Cannes to Toronto, CPH:DOX and Tallinn.
The producer
Founder & Producer
Hlín Jóhannesdóttir has produced and co-produced features, documentaries and shorts with directors across Iceland and Europe, building each film around the voice at its centre rather than a formula.
Her slate runs from Tinna Hrafnsdóttir's Quake and Hilmar Oddsson's Driving Mum to Anna Hints' Sundance-winning Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, a body of work defined by intimacy, nerve, and international co-production.
We back a point of view. The producer's job is to protect it all the way to the screen.
Close, human stories told with the craft and ambition of films built for the world stage.
Co-production with European partners, shot in Iceland, carried to festivals worldwide.
