New Producer @ Tenderlee MPC
Ragnheiður Erlingsdóttir takes a break with the ducks in downtown Reykjavík.
Ragnheiður was born in Reykjavík and grew up in the capital. In the summer when birds migrated south for warmer weather, Ragnheiður felt crowded and so she migrated north, to Akureyri, and found the weather actually better in the beautiful Eyjafjörður. She still follows this pattern although, as she has gotten older, work and other obligations have considerably shortened her summer stays.
Her summers in Akureyri were spent almost entirely in the TV-room watching VHS tapes from the house‘s large VHS library. The contents of which had been recorded from RÚV‘s broadcast (an early instance of pirating). She usually only ventured out when RÚV‘s program became too montonous for her and she felt the need to walk to the video rental.
Ragnheiður‘s greatest dream as a kid was to become a professor. To this end she got herself glasses and read mountains of books. This dream has never quite left her but plenty of other dreams have been added to keep the first one company.
When she was 12 she started taking dance lessons and formed a group with four other dancing friends. This group then went on to win titles in freestyle dancing. When she entered college she also entered The National Ballet School of Iceland and graduated from both schools in 2008. Now the dream of becoming a dancer had taken up a large space beside the dream of becoming a professor. So, right after graduation she moved to Berlin and spent 9 months working, enjoying life and auditioning for schools.
3 weeks before the start of her B.A. studies in modern dance in Salzburg divine intervention/complete coincidence happened. Her eye became seriously infected by malicious and resilient bacteria and she became blind in one eye. Because of this she had to move back to Iceland and rethink her plans.
Her dream of becoming a professor then resurfaced and she also fondly remembered her summers in Akureyri spent watching movies. The logical next step was then to enter the Film Studies program at the University of Iceland, which she considers one of the best steps she has taken so far.
She has worked for the National Film Archive of Iceland since the summer of 2010 and in 2011 she worked as a program coordinator for the Reykjavík International Film Festival where she met and worked with Marteinn Þórsson. Now Marteinn and Ragnheiður have renewed their work relationship as Ragnheiður is a producer at Tenderlee Motion Picture Company.