Sounds Like Teen Spirit (also known as Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary) is a 2008 documentary and debut feature film of Bafta-Award nominated director Jamie Jay Johnson.[1][2]
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Jamie Jay Johnson
Produced by
Simon Fawcett, Maxyne Franklin, Jess Search, Paul White
Starring
Marina Baltadzi, Yiorgos Ioannides, Mariam Romelashvili, Mirek Coutigny, Laurens Platteeuw, Matthieu Renier, Eva Storme, Bab Buelens
It follows the lives of the participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, specifically the entrants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Georgia. The film sees them proceed from the national finals that saw them crowned the representatives of their country through to the international song festival itself held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where they each compete against 16 other acts.
Critical receptionEdit
The film was exceptionally well received by critics receiving an 87% 'fresh' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[5] Director Johnson was praised for his 'crowdpleasing' debut[1] and his success in getting the participants to 'open-up' on camera.[6]
In the 2009 Dinard British Film Festival in Brittany, France 'Sounds Like Teen Spirit' played in competition and won the prestigious 'Hitchcock D’Argent' Audience Award.[7]
In the Seattle International film festival 2009 the film won a Special Jury Award and was highly commended by the jury "for excellence in capturing the universal experience of young adults discovering their place in the world".[8]
Sounds Like Teen Spirit was also nominated for a British Independent Film Award in the 'Best Documentary' category.[9]
ReferencesEdit
^ ab"Sounds Like Teen Spirit (12A)". Total Film. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^. BBC. 8 May 2009. Archived from the original on 31 May 2009. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
^"Video of Belgian premiere of JESC Film". YouTube. 16 October 2008. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 27 October 2008.
^"Premiere of JESC film in Cyprus". CyBC. September 2008. Retrieved 27 October 2008.[dead link]
^. Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
^Robey, Tim (7 May 2009). . London: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 14 May 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2009.
^"' Murphy's White Lightnin' and Johnson's Teen Spirit scoop Dinard prizes'". Screen daily. 12 October 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2009.
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