Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary
Synopsis
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
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Jamie Jay Johnson
- Producer
- Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley
- Editor
- Lucien Clayton
- Director of Photography
- Jamie Jay Johnson
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Number 9 Films
Linton House24 Wells Street
London W1T 4PH
UK
T +44 (0)20 7323 4060
info@number9films.co.uk
Sales Company
Intandem Films
22 Soho SquareLondon W1D 4NS
UK
T +44 (0)20 7851 3800
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