March 12, 2012

    DV Cultural Award

    CAOZ was honoured the other day with receiveing a nomination for the Icelandic DV Cultural Award for filmmaking. Not only was the company nominated but the jury decided that the award should go to CAOZ for our work on Legends of Valhalla – Thor. The jury awarded CAOZ the DV cultural Award for its pioneering [...]

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    February 13, 2012

    Thor and Crusher on a roll in South Korea

    Iceland‘s first feature length animated film has a great opening weekend in South Korea. The great film Legends of Valhalla – Thor premiered last week in South Korea and the reception has been great. The animated film was the most sought foreign film in South Korea last weekend and Thor and Crusher, the magic hammer, [...]

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    February 8, 2012

    Six nominations for the Edda Awards

    Nominations for the Icelandic Edda Awards were just made public and our film, Legends of Valhalla – Thor was nominated for no less than 6 awards. The categories are the following: Best director, Óskar Jónasson Best script: Friðrik Erlingsson Best editor: Elísabet Rónaldsdóttir Best visual design: Gunnar Karlsson Best sound: Patrick Drummond Best score: Stephen [...]

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    January 3, 2012

    Behind the Scenes in Valhalla

    2011 was a big year for CAOZ in many ways but the biggest event of the year was of course the premiere of the studio’s first feature film in s3D, Legends of Valhalla – Thor. We start this year with a bang as well but we just finished editing our “behind the scenes” short film. [...]

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    October 26, 2011

    Five star film and on the top of the Box Office!

    Legends of Valhalla – THOR – Iceland‘s first ever full feature animated film, of course in 3D, was released on October 14 in Reykjavik. The premiere weekend in Reykjavik was a smashing success and it continues the second week and the film is still at the top of the Box Office list in Iceland.  Raving [...]

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