Writing

 
 

Screenwriting

Steindor’s feature-length black comedy Andalusia is in development with Still Vivid (Godland, Heartstone) and the project has received two rounds of development funding from The Icelandic Film Centre. Steindor has also produced content for the 2023 European Film Awards and holds an MA in screenwriting from MetFilm School Berlin.

AWARD-WINNING Journalism work

Steindor is a two time winner of the Icelandic Journalism award. Along with his colleague Freyr Rögnvaldson at Stundin, he received the 2018 award for investigative journalism for their writing on land ownership in Iceland. In 2019, he and a number of colleagues at Stundin won the award for coverage for a series of articles on the climate crisis. Steindor has written for a number of Icelandic and English-language publications, including Heimildin (previously Stundin), Iceland Review, Reykjavík Grapevine, Rás 1 (Icelandic National Radio), Fréttablaðið and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Selected Interviews and articles

  • Coverage of sex work in Iceland and the policy surrounding it.

  • In-depth coverage of the activities of neo-nazis in Iceland with revelations about their organization and ties to foreign far-right groups.

  • Interviews with women who came forward with accounts of child sex abuse by an Icelandic priest.

  • Expose on allegations of sexual harassment by former Icelandic foreign minister Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson.

  • „Klaustursmálið“, an expose on members of Icelandic parliament caught on tape in misogyny and corruption scandal.

  • The detailed story of a murder plot involving an Icelandic fashion model and an Indian guru in Mexico.

  • Biography of activist Haukur Hilmarsson, who disappeared in North Syria.

  • Interview with Svein Har­ald Øygard, the Norwegian economist who served as the governor of the Central Bank of Iceland following the financial crisis of 2008.

  • A number of music articles for Reykjavík Grapevine, including an cover interview with singer Högni.

  • A series of columns on cultural topics for Lestin on Rás 1, Icelandic National Radio.

pro bono work

For the Berlin-based community radio station and fundraising platform Refuge Worldwide, Steindor has written a number of articles and interviews in English about local issues, for example housing policy, the delivery wars and charity work for the unhoused.