Anton Máni Svansson
- Producer
Anton Máni Svansson co-founded Join Motion Pictures in Reykjavík, Iceland with the ambition to forge close working relationships with upcoming writer-director talents. Since 2007, he has worked as the leading producer and CEO of the company, and his productions have been selected for many of the most prestigious film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno, Telluride, and Toronto. These films have collected over 200 awards, sold worldwide, received three nominations for the European Film Awards, four for the Nordic Council Film Prize, and been Iceland's contribution to the International Feature Award at the Oscars in 2020 and 2022. Svansson, an EAVE and EAVE+ graduate, was Iceland's 2017 Producer on the Move in Cannes, and won a Lorens Award for Best Producer at Goteborg Film Festival the same year.