Una Lorenzen is an Icelandic film director and designer. In recent years she has worked on and directed award winning documentaries, doing concept development, design and animation. Her latest short film Chasing Birds won the Best Icelandic Short at Reykjavik International Filmfestival in 2022. In 2021 she was nominated by Cinema Eye Honors for outstanding animation for the documentary Rebel Hearts, which also traveled to festivals such as Sundance and HotDocs. In 2016 she co-directed the documentary Yarn which won an Audience award at Nordisk Panorama and received excelent reviews in New York Times. Una received a Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design from Iceland Academy of the Arts (2004) and a Masters Degree in Experimental Animation from CalArts in California (2009). She lived in Montreal, Canada for ten years but now resides in Iceland. She collaborates regularly with a wonderful team of animators, directors and producers in North America and Iceland.