Fri 29 Aug 2008 10:47:44 AM EEST
Punksters & Youngsters, 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’S JUSTIFICATIONS
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 & Youngsters (Finland 2008)
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 an 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
Simonen came to the film industry through art school and worked in 1997-2004 as a producer at the production company Kinotar in Helsinki. She has produced the awarded films by Susanna Helke, Virpe Suutari and Mika Taanila among others, as well as numerous international joint productions. Simonen was co-opted as a member of the European Film Academy in 2001. In 2004, she started working as a production advisor for AVEK, The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture. Nowadays Simonen is an independent producer and an expert advisor at several European film organizations.
Kasper Collin, Director and Producer
Director Kasper Collin has a degree in Culture and Film studies from Gothenburgh University, Sweden. He has been working with film and television since the mid 1990s. Collin won the MusiXine Main Prize 2007 with his directorial debut My Name Is Albert Ayler, a stunning documentary on the American free-jazz legend. He runs his own production company Kasper Collin Produktion where he has several new films under development.
John Caulkins, Festival Director
John Caulkins is the founder and director of the MOFFOM (Music on Film - Film on Music) festival in Prague. Caulkins is also a founding partner of the distribution company Aerofilms. In 2007, he founded the Association of Music Film Festivals and is currently developing a web portal MusicFilmWeb covering the subject of music film. He has served on the jury at the InEdit Music Documentary Festival in Barcelona and the International Emmy Awards. A former publisher and writer, Caulkins is a native of Denver, Colorado. He has lived in Prague full-time since 1996.
