Films

2011 - City State (drama)
2010 - Polite People (comedy)
2010 - Adequate Beings (doc)
2009 - Cirlcedrawers (webseries)
2008 - Higher Force (comedy)
2008 - Queen Raquela (drama)
2007 - Act Normal (docu)
2006 - Africa United (docu)

AWARDS
2008 - "BEST FILM"
Teddy Awards Berlin Int'l Film Festival "Queen Raquela"

2008 - "BEST FEATURE FILM " Zinegoak Film Festival
Bilbao, Spain "Queen Raquela"

2008 - "GRAND JURY PRIZE" Cinemanila
Philippines - "Queen Raquela"

2008 - "BEST FILM" & "SHOWTIME VANGUARD AWARD"
New York LGBT Awards - "Queen Raquela"

2008 - "AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTING
TO CONTEMPORARY FILM LANGUAGE" - Exit
Festival, Serbia - "Queen Raquela"

2005 - "BEST DOCUMENTARY"
Icelandic Film Awards Africa United

2004 - "BEST DOCUMENTARY"
Icelandic Icelandic Film Awards Blindsker

Olaf de Fleur

director / producer Olaf de Fleur Johannesson has been a dedicated filmmaker for over a decade. He founded his own independent production company, Poppoli Pictures, in 2003.

INTERVIEW SCREENDAILY
"Olaf de Fleur says he has been through 'a good film school of dos and don'ts' in the past few busy years making a string of very different feature films. 'I've been working on quantity, just doing a lot of films for the past four or five years,' the Icelandic director says. 'You need four or five films to get the language of film correct ... read more

INTERVIEW PREMIERE
"Underseen amongst my peers at SXSW, Icelandic filmmaker Olaf de Fleur's stylish and heartfelt transsexual docudrama, The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela, had already arrived in Austin with a prestigious award tucked into its pantyhose: weeks before, the film won the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Far from your typical tranny film, Queen Raquela is not about sex-change operations or identity quests, but the touching, dreamlike ... read more

INTERVIEW INDIEWIRE
"Icelandic director Olaf de Fleur Johannesson‘s “The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela” is an 85 minute drama which chronicles the story of a naive but street smart Filipina transsexual prostitute named Raquela who decides to travel in order to find her prince charming. Like many Transsexuals (often known as “Ladyboys”) in the ... read more