Olaf de Fleur

Olaf de Fleur (real name: Ólafur Jóhannesson born 1975) is an Icelandic film director, scriptwriter and producer.

He won the award again in 2005 for the feature documentary Africa United, which follows the formation of a football team of immigrants from all over the world who intend to take the Icelandic 3rd division by storm.

It is an enchanting journey into the dreams and aspirations of a football-crazy coach and his colorful ensemble of players who have to overcome their egos for a true team spirit.

In 2011, Olaf and his producer Kristin Andrea released one documentary called Adequate Beings and two fiction features, City State and Polite People.

Adequate Beings is a documentary project focusing on the farming community of Olaf's childhood stomping grounds, Budardalur valley on the west coast of Iceland where small farmers are facing bankruptcy as their old practices are undermined by complex trade regulations and market forces beyond their control, just as is occurring worldwide with the advancement of globalization.

Polite People is a black comedy starring Stefán Karl Stefánsson who portrays a desperate city slicker engineer who cheats his way into a small farming community by pretending to know how to re-finance the community's slaughterhouse and save the town, not knowing that he's walking into a local turmoil of small-town politics and general misbehaving.

Starring Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Zlatko Krickic this Nordic crime drama shares similar spirit of the Millennium series or the Pusher trilogy.

- Olaf served as the Artistic Director for the Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) Talent Lab, fostering emerging filmmakers worldwide.