Róbert Ingi Douglas

Róbert Ingi Douglas (born 4 June 1973 in Reykjavík) is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and cinematographer who made his feature film debut with Íslenski draumurinn (2000).^[1] That film became a sleeper hit in the summer of 2000 becoming one of Iceland's biggest box-office hits that year. Róbert Douglas followed the success of his first film with a darker film about subtle racism in Iceland's society, A Man Like Me (2002). That film proved to be another commercial success in Iceland. Douglas then made Eleven Men Out (2005), a film about an all-gay soccer team. The film has already become a success outside of Iceland and is the director's first film to do so. Before making Eleven Men Out, Douglas made a documentary for television. This Is Sanlitun (2013), a comedy feature film set in Beijing is Douglas's latest film and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013, it is Douglas's first English language film. ^[2]

Douglas is half Irish, half Icelandic. His mother is from Iceland and his father is from Northern Ireland.^[3]

Filmography

• The Icelandic Dream (Icelandic Íslenski draumurinn) (2000)
• A Man Like Me (Icelandic. Maður eins og ég) (2002)
• Small Mall (Icelandic. Mjóddin slá í gegn) (2004)
• Eleven Men Out (Icelandic. Strákarnir okkar) (2005)
• This Is Sanlitun (2013)

References

1. The Douglas Archives The Douglas Archives
2. TIFF 2013 Program
3. That's Beijing Magazine That's Beijing

External links

• Róbert Ingi Douglas at the Internet Movie Database