Bio
My name is Katla Sólnes. I’m an Icelandic film director, editor, and screenwriter.
I specialize in commercial editing and narrative film work.
I’m an inventive, wry, aesthetically driven, and distinctly feminine writer-director with a diversified background in advertising, mostly scriptwriting, and editing. Preceding my master, I spent four years as a full-time editor at a competitive advertising firm working on everything from commercials to documentaries and music videos. I’m currently in my thesis years at Columbia's illustrious MFA film program. My first short, Að Vori or With the Arrival of Spring, went to festivals worldwide, winning awards in directing in Detroit and St. Petersburg. My current short, Make a Wish, Benóný starring A24’s Lamb’s Björn Hlynur is in post-production. I have two shorts in development, one a textured environmental film about the rising sea levels, The Old Woman and the Sea, starring Edda Björgvins (fully funded by The Icelandic Film Fund), and my thesis from Columbia, the fantastical and feminist fable Embla supported in part by the Indian Paintbrush Fund. Deeply curious, an avid reader, and an aestheticist through and through.
Narrative Shorts Directing Work
2024
2023
2022-23
2021
2018
EMBLA (in development)
The Old Woman and the Sea (in pre-production)
Make a Wish, Benóný (in post-production)
The Winter Palace
With the Arrival of Spring
Behind the Scenes from Að Vori (2018)
Featured project
Make a wish, benóný
Currently in post-production
Rolling stone and absentee father, Benóný, is in for a surprise when his path unexpectedly crosses with his teenage daughter, blissfully unaware of him, on vacation in his isolated seaside village.
2022
Director, screenwriter and editor.
Featured project
with the arrival of spring
Available to watch here.
The desolate Icelandic spring awakens complicated feelings between two choir girls.
2018
Director, screenwriter, editor, and color.
Featured Commercial Work
marc jacobs: Me, my home
Available to watch here.
Cinematography (Digital, 8mm and mini-DV), Edit and Color.
2019
Featured Commercial Work
UN Women: empwr
Available to watch here.
2018
Directing, Cinematography, Edit, and Color.
Wedding photography (only for loved ones, Ray/Woonow Wedding 2022)
Still from Me, My Home
35mm Photography Work
Kill Kill (2020)
35mm Photography Work
Belly of the Beast (2020)
Still from With the Arrival of Spring
Still from More Tomorrow than Yesterday
Still from With the Arrival of Spring
Still from Me, My Home
35mm Photography Work
Journey (2020)
Still from More Tomorrow than Yesterday
Still from With the Arrival of Spring
35mm Photography Work
Lovers (2018)
Still from More Tomorrow than Yesterday
Still from More Tomorrow than Yesterday
Still from Me, My Home
Still from With the Arrival of Spring
Still from With the Arrival of Spring
Still from Me, My Home
35mm Photography Work
The North (2019)
35mm Photography Work
Childhood (2018)
Still from With the Arrival of Spring