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MusiXine - International Music Film Contest 2008

Punksters & Youngsters (Finland 2008), a film by Jouko Aaltonen, won the MusiXine Main Award 5000€, which was donated by Oulu Music Video Festival. MusiXine International Music Film Contest was organized for the second time as a part of the Oulu Music Video Festival on August 20-24, 2008.

The jury enjoyed watching the colourful sampling of music documentaries in MusiXine 2008. Films showed good variety of many genres of music and styles of filmmaking. This competition shows music documentaries is a genre of it's own and worth celebrating.

Winner : Jouko Aaltonen : Punksters and Youngsters

The winning film tells a bittersweet story that is repeated from one generation to another. With well developed characters, the filmmaker celebrates the non-conformist culture with and unusual degree of intimacy and honesty. The spirit and idealism of the late 1970s punk generation is visible through familiar yet exotic archive footage and living anew in the young protagonist, Seve of "Akupunktio". As much as the film has a local context, there are strong common qualities of the D.I.Y process that now is everywhere. The warm and humorous touch of the film is complemented by playing with the stereotypes of Finnish culture. Not for Finns only.

A special mention went to the film Scott Walker - 30 Century Man (UK/USA 2006) for it's captivating use of music.

MUSIXINE JURY 2008

Ulla Simonen, Film Producer (Finland)
Kasper Collin, Director and Producer (Sweden)
John Caulkins, Festivaldirector (USA)

Press photos can be found here.

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