Behind Iceland’s Greatest Surf Film | The Accord
The Accord is the greatest ever surf movie from Iceland that is made in Iceland. It’s got to be! It pits local Icelandic surfer Heidar Logi against a loud drunkard – the north atlantic wind. An unruly beast of a foe. The arctic is hot, hot, hot in the surfing world these days. Well at least since Chris Burkard started going mad up in Iceland, even personally taking Justin Bieber around as well as creating a surf movie about surfing under the northern lights.
The Accord has been making the rounds at film festivals (like the Telluride MountainFilm festival), so Directors Notes caught up with director RC Cone to get the backstory of how the film came to be.
The initial idea came from your friend and surf photographer Elli Thor Magnusson’s desire to make a movie about Icelandic surfers. How did you turn his writings about surfing in Iceland into a workable script?
We did that together. During the month of production in November, there were many, many down days where the surf wasn’t happening. Over beers and plenty of coffee, we hashed out Elli’s concept of the wind as a character. What worked, what didn’t. From there, I helped bring some of Elli’s ideas about Icelandic surfers to the screen – luckily he’s an amazing still photographer, so once we were past the conceptual pieces the practical visuals came easy to us.
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