Sounds Like Teen Spirit: a Popumentary
Short film Completed 2009
Director & Writer
Jamie Jay Johnson
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Runtime: 89 minutes
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The outrageously talented Jamie Jay Johnson’s debut feature documentary marks the first partnership between the Foundation and the British Film Council.
This feature pop-umentary follows the 2007 Junior Eurovision contest – a subject which will indulge Johnson’s love of heroic losers and allow his quirky sense of humour to shine. It also promises to provide an insight into both what it is to be young and talented and, with entrants from Belarus, Cyprus, what it means to be European today.
The film is being produced by Stephen Wooley’s Number Nine films and is scheduled for theatrical release in 2008.
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Jamie Jay Johnson
Director & Writer
Jamie Jay Johnson has been nominated for a BAFTA, Broadcast and Grierson award (Best Newcomer) and has made documentaries about medievally wooing Swedish princesses, breakfast cereals, holidaying around his bedroom, the Minigolf World Championships, the slowest ever swimmer in Olympic history and people who own their own robot dogs.
Aside from completing his first feature film, Sounds Like Teen Spirit...a Popumentary, Jamie is also writing a feature script for Film4 and developing a project for BBC documentaries.
Previous films: Holiday around my Bedroom, Writer and Director
