Jón Bjarki Magnússon (born 30 June 1984) is an Icelandic journalist and independent documentary filmmaker. He studied creative writing at the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

(2012) and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin (2018).

Biography

Magnússon's journalistic work includes award-winning coverage of the conditions of refugees and asylum seekers in his home country and the leaked memo case, which led to the resignation of then-Minister of the Interior

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. His short film, Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (2018), was awarded the

Royal Anthropological Institute The Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (RAI) is a long-established anthropological organisation, and Learned Society, with a global membership. Its remit includes all the component fields of anthropology, such as biolo ...

's (RAI) Short Film Prize for ‘the most outstanding short film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’ in 2019. His first feature documentary, Half Elf (2020), won the Grand Jury Prize at Skjaldborg, Icelandic Documentary Film Festival in 2020, and has been nominated for several prizes at key European film festivals. He is the founder of SKAK bíófilm, a small Icelandic production company specialising in the creation of anthropological and artistic films. He is a regular contributor to the Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper

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and works on project development for Filmmaking For Fieldwork (F4F™), an educational project that offers training in audio-visual research methods, ethnographic and documentary filmmaking.

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