It's amazing what a few centuries and a hit translation can do for an Old English saga. That would be Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon myth about a noble young warrior battling Grendel the man-eater. The epic, passed along by bards and finally written down in the 11th...

The talented team behind Beowulf and Grendel dropped us a line to tell us it has been a smash hit at the Sarasota Film Festival. B&G is the only film at the festival to be shown 3 times with all 3 dates being sold out prior to screening. Sturla is in attendance....

There’s no doubt about it — Sturla Gunnarsson is one of Canada’s most seasoned, critically acclaimed directors. He has won a number of prestigious awards, and recently took on a challenge he had been hoping to do for years: bring the legend of Beowulf to the big...

Bringing the first epic poem in the English language to the screen was an ambitious endeavour, so it required a director with a deep passion for the Scandinavian mythological tale to make a picture like “Beowulf & Grendel,” and who better than Icelandic-born...

Director Sturla Gunnarsson's Canada/U.K./Iceland copro Beowulf & Grendel has easily held the top spot in box office among Canadian films since its release on March 10. The epic tale about the legendary hero Beowulf (Gerard Butler) and his clash with killer troll...

Sturla Gunnarsson is standing at a pay phone on a dirt road in a tiny village in Costa Rica talking about Vikings, fjords and monsters. The director of Beowulf & Grendel is enjoying a warm vacation after spending 45 days on the rainy, windy and very chilly coast...

Sturla Gunnarsson left his native Iceland when he was seven, but the land of ice, snow and magnificent cliffs has never been far from his heart. "I went back many times when I was a young person. And after I graduated from UBC, I worked on a fishing boat off the coast...

Sarah Polley is the Swiss Army Knife of actors. She's actor/activist/scriptwriter/Genie-Award winning short film director currently making her feature film directorial debut in Away from Her, starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. She was featured in The Young...

Sturla Gunnarsson drew on his Icelandic roots, Vancouver film studies, and a pagan ritual or two to reimagine an ancient epic into Beowulf & Grendel. Sturla Gunnarsson drew on his Icelandic roots, Vancouver film studies, and a pagan ritual or two to reimagine an...

Hofn, Iceland — I'm standing on a mountain pass, looking out over a glacial river delta on Iceland's south coast. Looming behind me is the Myrdalsjokull, an immense glacier shrouding an active volcano. It is the most beautiful, primordial landscape I've ever seen —...