REinvent Boards Female Empowerment Series ‘Vigdis’ from ‘Blackport’ Creators (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Annika Pham REinvent International Sales has secured global rights to “Vigdís,” the next big Icelandic TV show from the talent-driven shingle Vesturport and local public broadcaster RÚV, after the 2021 Series Mania winning show “Blackport.” Filming is due to start this fall.

As announced in Variety, the four-part series, co-penned by Björg Magnúsdóttir (“The Minister”) and Ágústa M. Ólafsdóttir, chronicles the inspiring true story of Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland’s former president and the world’s first woman democratically elected head of state.

Created in full cooperation with Finnbogadóttir, the show centres on the young woman’s transformation from a teenager to a single working mother who defies the nation’s patriarchal society and her election as president in 1980.

Vesturport is now fully producing, with Rakel Gardarsdóttir serving as producer together with Ólafsdóttir. Versatile actor, director, producer Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (seen in “Fortitude”, “The Borgias”, “Lamb”), will be directing, alongside Tinna Hrafnsdóttir (“Quake”), while seasoned actor Nína Dogg Filippusdóttir, one of Vesturport’s founding members with Haraldsson, will take on the coveted main part. “I was only 6 years-old when Vigdís got elected and I was 22 when she stepped down, so you can say that all of my youth, I had this strong female role model in front of me,” noted Filippusdóttir, credited for “The Valhalla Murders” and recently named best actress at the local Edda awards for “Blackport.” “I got Vigdís’ biography as a Christmas gift in 2009, in the middle of a very dark time here in Iceland due to the financial crisis.