Interview with Filmmaker Runar Thor Sigurbjornsson (HANN)

HANN was the winner of BEST FILM at the LGBT Feedback Film Festival.

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I knew I wanted to make a film that carried sentimental significance to me and I decided that I would create the film that I needed as a gay youth. Perhaps if I had seen this film as a teenager, I would not have delayed my coming out until I was 27 years old. My father was always my role model in life, a strong, masculine figure that I looked up to, and I was always afraid of the possibility that he would not want his son to be gay. However, on the day that I did come out, he surprised me by posting on his Facebook wall, which he rarely ever did, saying to all who could see how proud he was of his son for being true…