Thordur Palsson

Thordur Palsson graduated from the prestigious National Film and Television School with an MA in Directing Fiction in 2015.

Thor’s debut feature film THE DAMNED  premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2024 and was released theatrically in the US, UK and Ireland in January 2025 by Vertical, with Protagonist handling sales. The psychological horror film stars Odessa Young (“Mothering Sunday”), Joe Cole (“Gangs of London”), Siobhan Finneran (“Happy Valley”), Rory McCann (“Game of Thrones”), Turlough Convery (“Killing Eve”), Lewis Gribben (“Somewhere Boy”), Francis Magee (“The Tourist”), Mícheál Óg Lane (“The Guard”), and Andrean Sigurgeirsson (“A Song Called Hate”). The film has been hailed as ''a chilling exploration of survival and madness'' (Collider) and was described as “concise, clever, and unnerving[…] a perfect film for the onset of winter’’ (Nick Schager, The Daily Beast). The script is written by Jamie Hannigan, based on a story by Thor and produced by Elation Pictures, Wild Atlantic Pictures, and Ley Line Entertainment. Protagonist Pictures is handling worldwide sales, with co-representation of U.S. rights with CAA Media Finance.

Thor is also the creator and lead director of the ''wonderfully pulpy'' (The i Paper) THE VALHALLA MURDERS which premiered in the UK in 2020 on BBC4 and is available on Netflix in over 190 countries.

Thordur is represented in the US by CAA.