{
  "id": 2324997,
  "title": "Icelandic Producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir Sets ‘Just a Kid’ With Alief Ahead of Haugesund and Reunites with ‘Driving Mum’ Team (EXCLUSIVE)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/icelandic-producer-hlin-johannsdottir-sets-just-a-kid-with-alief",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/driving-mum-iceland-alief-just-a-kid-1236839417/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Veteran Icelandic producer Hlín Jóhannsdóttir of Ursus Parvus, behind titles from some Iceland’s most renowned filmmakers including Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Dagur Kári and Rúnar Rúnarsson, has signed with French-U.K. sales outfit Alief on the coming-of-age “Just a Kid” (“Bara barn”) by up-and-coming writer-director Vala Ómarsdóttir. To be pitched at New Nordic Films’ Works in Progress […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}