Project Detail

Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary

Synopsis

Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary is an affectionate, comic and unique feature documentary that delves behind the scenes of the world's premiere youth music spectacle; The Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

While The Eurovision Song Contest has matured into the highest rating non-sporting event in the world, enjoyed by over six hundred million people annually, Junior Eurovision is somewhat more of a home-grown affair. Now in its seventh year, the Junior competition differs in one major aspect from the adult competition: all of the ten to fifteen year old amateur contestants must compose and write their own entries and sing them in their national language.

Not knowing who would make it through all seventeen participating countries' national selections, the film crew travelled from Belarus to the Ukraine, Cyprus to Belgium and Malta to Sweden to see whom each nation selected to represent them in Rotterdam at the Final.

Details

Year
2009
Type of project
Features
Running time
89 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Jamie Jay Johnson
Producer
Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
Editor
Lucien Clayton
Director of Photography
Jamie Jay Johnson

Genre

Production Status

Production Company

Number 9 Films

Linton House
24 Wells Street
London W1T 4PH
UK

T +44 (0)20 7323 4060

info@number9films.co.uk

Sales Company

Intandem Films

22 Soho Square
London W1D 4NS
UK

T +44 (0)20 7851 3800

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