Script Consultation & Polishing

Here is how this works in practice. We connect you with skilled Icelandic script consultants who give constructive, actionable feedback on a screenplay or production script. Our team matches your genre and format with consultants based across Reykjavik and Akureyri. We manage the consultation process so it produces something a writer can genuinely use: a clear read on narrative structure, dialogue, character development, pacing and market positioning, delivered as specific notes rather than vague impressions.

Here is the short of it. A script consultant here brings an outside perspective at the point it matters most, before money and crew are committed, and helps a writer see where a script is working and where it is not. For projects intended to shoot in Iceland or to engage Icelandic Film Centre development support, our consultants know both local storytelling sensibilities and global market expectations, and can advise on how a script reads to each. We set up the timing of consultation against your development schedule so revisions land before production planning hardens around the material.

Here is the breakdown. Iceland brings an unusually deep literary culture to script work. The medieval Sagas of Icelanders are among the great achievements of European narrative. The Icelandic language has been preserved close enough to Old Norse that Icelanders still read those sagas in something near the first, a top living connection to a storytelling custom. Reykjavik is a UNESCO City of Literature.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. The country's today's cinema has a strong screenwriting culture behind it: directors such as Baltasar Kormakur, Hlynur Palmason, whose 'Godland' drew wide acclaim, and Grimur Hakonarson, whose 'Rams' took Un Certain Regard at Cannes in 2015, work from with care built scripts. Consultants drawing on this environment bring a sharp instinct for structure, restraint and character. For a production, script consultation rooted in that custom is a low-cost way to strengthen the foundation everything else is built on.