Jon Einarsson Gustafsson
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Jon Einarsson Gustafsson was born and raised in Iceland. He started
making films in high school with his father's 8mm camera. While
intending to pay his way through a psychology degree at the University
of Iceland by hosting weekly radio shows, he soon got offered his own
television show, causing him to drop out of university. After a
successful two year career in Icelandic television where he hosted over
120 TV shows he decided to pursue his old film making dreams. He
studied film making in Manchester, England, and Directing for Theatre
and Cinema at the California Institute of the Arts, where he was
mentored by the late Ealing Studios director Alexander Mckendrick.
Gustafsson has directed documentaries for television, theatre
productions, short films, television commercials and music videos. He
immigrated to Canada in 1997 when he was offered the chance to direct
the documentary "The Importance of Being Icelandic" for CBC's RoughCuts
series. Since then he has kept busy directing theatre shows, "Brighter
Hell" - a music video for the Canadian rock band The Watchmen,
(nominated for the 1999 Prairie Music Awards) and last but not least
writing and directing his first feature film "Kanadiana", financed by
Telefilm and Mani