I just received an e-mail with the program listing from the Wrath Of Gods listing from the NSI FilmExchange festival. Here is what the wrote:
WRATH OF GODS
Saturday, March 3, 6:15 p.m.
Canada/Iceland, 2006, 71 min
Canadian theatrical premiere
Director/writer: Jon Gustafsson
Producers: Jon Gustafsson, Karolina Lewicka
Co-producers: Jón Ármann Steinsson, Gerard Butler
Cinematography: Jon Gustafsson, Gunnar Orn Heimisson, Sarah Moffat, Ósk Gunnlaugsdóttir, Wendy Ord
Cast: Sturla Gunnarsson, Paul Stephens, Wendy Ord, Gerard Butler, Eric Jordan, Michael Cowan, Andrew Berzins, Stellan Skarsgård, Sarah Polley
In July 2004 film director Sturla Gunnarsson arrived in Iceland to begin production on the movie Beowulf & Grendel. Delays in closing the funding for the picture, a Canada/Iceland co-production pushed the start of shooting to the beginning of September and before long the cast and crew found themselves coping with filming a movie outdoors in the stormiest autumn in Iceland in 60 years. The international crew and cast, which included Scottish actor Gerard Butler (Phantom of the Opera), Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (Breaking the Waves) and Canadian actress Sarah Polley (My Life Without Me), braved wind, rain, mud and cold, all the while wondering if perhaps the pagan blessing invoked at the start of filming had actually been a curse. Documentary filmmaker Jon Gustafsson was there, capturing it all with his own camera — the physical hardships, the anxiety caused by delayed financing and the formidable beauty of the windswept Icelandic coasts. A “making of” documentary that attests to the passion and folly of movie-making.