Culture

Films

Preface


Documentary
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Dir: Jamie J Johnson
Having cut his teeth with a documentary on the mini-golf world championships, Jamie Johnson has made an amusing, absorbing and moving masterpiece with this study of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest. Pulling focus on the preparations of entrants from Bulgaria, Georgia, Belgium and Cyprus, Johnson throws light on children's hopes and fears before fates are decided before 23 million viewers from a Rotterdam TV studio.

Issue 23 . volume 3 . May 2009


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