Fri 24 Aug 2007 12:34:00 PM EEST

The Jury for the MusiXine International Music Film Contest is now out. The Head of Jury is Ms. Aida LiPera, a native New Yorker living in Scotland. She is the Programme Producer of Mirrorball, the music on film strand of Edinburgh International Film Festival. Other Jury members include the awarded Finnish drama director, Mr. Jappe Päivinen, and PhD in Film Studies, Ms. Emily Munro, editor at the Copenhagen ThinkTank on European Film and Film Policy, Education Manager at Glasgow Film Theatre, and a freelance writer.

The Jury will pick the best film on top of the beat, which will be awarded the MusiXine Main Award, 10,000 euros.

MusiXine Selection Presents a Wide Range of Music Films

The MusiXine Selection includes ten films, which give the art of music and music making different views from the most pop-musical pieces to the finest classical music. One of the freshest music films in the contest is the new work of the renowned Finnish filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki, whose film Sonic Mirror fills the screen with Brazilian rhythms. Other Finnish contest works are A Lone Star Hotel by Ari Matikainen which follows the life of Jorma Kääriäinen, the front man of a Finnish rock ‘n' roll legend the Agents, and Visa Koiso-Kanttila's film A Winter's Journey which follows a career-devoted young tenor and his bittersweet way to the top, despite his father's resistance.

Nömadak Tx, directed by Raúl De La Fuente, unveils Basque rhythms in different corners of the world. Rolling Like a Stone directed by Swedish Magnus Gertten and Stefan Berg follows the consequences of one magic evening spent with the Rolling Stones. American disco action is served in the documentary Godfather of Disco by Gene Graham, and jazz legend Albert Ayler's life is examined in Swedish Kasper Collin's film My Name Is Albert Ayler.

German filmmaker's works can be seen in The Chosen Ones by Wendla Nöllen which takes a peek at the world of Jew musicians living in New York. Uli Schueppel's documentary BerlinSong introduces music inspired by Berlin. The Sounds of Silents by Ilona Ziok, on the other hand, tells the life story of the last silent film accompanist alive.

The Award Ceremony will be held during the Oulu Music Video Festival in Rio Cinema on Sunday 9 September 2007, starting at 1 p.m. Tickets to the happy ending of the festival 5 €, are sold at the NUKU Ticket Sales. The age limit to the Award Ceremony is 18 years.

More on the festival programme at www.omvf.net and www.musixine.com.

Further information from Festival Producer Hanna Jakku, hanna(at)omvf.net, tel. +358 8 5700 500.