{"id":373,"date":"2023-09-20T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:00:35","slug":"the-laxa-farmers-hvellur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"The Lax\u00e1 Farmers \/ Hvellur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Synopsis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Old farmers blew up a dam to save their valley. They had protested for years but were losing the battle and being chased off their land when in the middle of the night they brought out the dynamite. This event marks the birth of environmentalism in Iceland. The farmers won a court case against them by sticking together and all confessing. For 40 years they have never revealed the secret. Until now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HVELLUR\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/57415831?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Credits<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director: Gr\u00edmur H\u00e1konarson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Producer: Hanna Bj\u00f6rk Valsd\u00f3ttir, Sigur\u00f0ur G\u00edsli P\u00e1lmason<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Production company: Ground Control Productions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Bj\u00f6rg\u00falfsson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Editor: Stein\u00fe\u00f3r Birgisson, Eva Lind H\u00f6skuldsd\u00f3ttir<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sound designer: Bj\u00f6rn Viktorsson, Huldar Freyr Arnarson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Composer: Valgeir Sigur\u00f0sson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Color: Stein\u00fe\u00f3r Birgisson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graphic design: Fri\u00f0rik Sn\u00e6r Fri\u00f0riksson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Support: The Icelandic Film Center, R\u00daV, NRK, Nordisk Film &amp; TV Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Winner: Edda, Icelandic Film Awards: Best documentary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary \/ Iceland \/ 60 min \/ 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akkerifilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}