Kristín Jóhannesdóttir was born 17. 11. 1948 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Baccalaureate from The Reykjavik College 1969. She studied at the Paul-Valéry-University in Montpellier, France where she completed a Licence degree and later Master degree in literature and cinema in 1974 and D.E.A. degree in 1976. She studied cinema at Vincennes University in Paris and also film direction at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français where she had a diploma in 1978. She made her first short films in 1976 (Arthur and Rosa) and 1978 (Sad mornings after). Jóhannesdóttir directed her first full-length feature based on her own script (Á hjara veraldar - RAINBOW'S END). It was released in 1983. In 1985 she directed a tele-film for the Icelandic Television (Líf til einhvers- A PURPOSE IN LIFE) and another in 1988 (Glerbrot - BROKEN GLASS) starring the singer Björk in the main role, an unknown pop singer at the time. Kristín Jóhannesdóttir's latest film Svo á jörðu sem á himni - AS IN HEAVEN is based on her own script and was chosen to be Iceland's contribution to the Nordic Co-Production Year 1992. It was first shown as a part of the Official Selection(Out of competition)in the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. Since then it has won about twelve prices in different film festivals -(Mannheim, Brugge, Marseille, Sainte-Thérèse Montreal etc.) and has been selected to around twenty-five film festivals and comercially in three countries outside Iceland. Kristín Jóhannesdóttir has also directed radio plays (f.ex. plays by Herman Broch, Quintero, Rozov, Vaclav Havel, Bernard-Marie Koltès and Sigurdur Pálsson), one opera (The Moonlight Island, libretto: S.Pálsson, music: A.H.Sveinsson)and theatre plays (by Horst Laube, Peter Handke, Jökull Jakobsson, David Hare, Arthur Miller, Frank Wedekind and Sigurdur Pálsson); the last six productions in the City Theatre of Reykjavik. She is now working on and searching finance for two feature film scripts: Scented Words and Touch.