Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir

This is an Icelandic name. The last name is patronymic, not a family name; this person is referred to by the given name Ása.

Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir
Born	(1984-08-01) 1 August 1984 (age 40)
Nationality	Icelandic
Occupations	film director screenwriter

Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir (born 1 August 1984) is an Icelandic film director and screenwriter.^[1] Ása graduated with an MA in filmmaking from Columbia University in 2012. Ása's 2017 feature film, The Swan, was based on Guðbergur Bergsson's 1991 book of the same name.^[2] Her second film, A Letter from Helga, was based on Bergsvein Birgisson's 2010 book of the same name.^[3]

Filmography

Director^[1]

• Love Story (2012) – short
• You and Me (2015) – short
• The Swan (2017)
• Last Dance (2020) – short
• A Letter from Helga (2022)

References

1. "Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir". Icelandic Film Centre.
2. Richter, Nína (25 November 2017). "Eins og að fá listamannalaun í ár". RÚV (in Icelandic).
3. ""Skynjaði að það væri rosalega mikið að gerast heima"". RÚV (in Icelandic). 1 September 2022.

External links

• Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir at the Icelandic Film Centre
• Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir at IMDb