Director

Sara Gunnarsdóttir

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.2

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Directed movies: 2Directed series: 1All crew credits: 4

TMDB ID: 1210151

IMDb ID: nm3613609

Known for: Directing

Born: January 20, 1982

Age: 44

Place of birth: Reykjavik, Iceland

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2009 - 2023

Years active: 15

Average TMDB rating: 6.64

Wikidata: Q116151782

Frequent jobs

Director (2)Animation Director (1)Animation (1)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

Biography

Sara Gunnarsdóttir (born in 1982 in Reykjavik) is an Icelandic director, animator, and artist. She is mainly known for directing and animating sequences of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) and for directing and animating the Oscar-nominated short film My Year of Dicks (2022). In 2003, Gunnarsdóttir received a BFA from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. She also holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, from which she graduated in 2012. Gunnarsdóttir worked on Marielle Heller’s feature The Diary of a Teenage Girl and HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Sayed. Her work has been showcased at AFI Fest, SXSW, Annecy, and the Telluride Film Festival. With My Year of Dicks (2022), Gunnarsdóttir won the Special Jury Awards at SXSW for Unique Vision in Writing and Directing and was awarded the Crystal Prize for Best TV Production at Annecy Animation Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sara Gunnarsdóttir, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies