Screaming Men
(Huutajat)

Script:

Mika Ronkainen

Director:

Mika Ronkainen

Cinematography:

Vesa Taipaleenmäki

Sound:

Esa Nissi

Music:

Olli Tuomainen

Editing :

Pernille Bech Christensen

Production:

Kimmo Paananen/Klaffi Tuotannot

Co-Producer:

Carsten Holst/Zentropa Real

Shooting:

12/97–4/02

Budget:

280.000 € (SES 21.000 €)

Lenght:

73 min

Release:

2/21/2003

Actors:

Internet:

www.huutajat.com

Synopsis:

"To talk is silver, to shout is golden".

Meet the choir that travels to Tokyo with the main goal of getting good photographs of their Japanese audience while performing the Japanese national anthem. Meet the choir that screams La Marseillaise at the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris even though the museum and the Embassy of Finland try to prevent them. Meet the choir that can pull a 3 500-ton icebreaker out of ice. Meet the choir that makes parody of nationalism and fascism - and can only be led by a total dictator. Meet the conductor of the choir of 30 screaming men.

The Finnish Screaming Male Choir, Mieskuoro Huutajat, dressed in black suits, white shirts and rubber ties is a unique choir which performs its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviö, the choir has travelled during 15 years of its existence from an idea at a bar table all the way to the frontline of modern European performing arts, receiving the same strong reaction everyway: the audience has been mostly ecstatic, and sometimes also shocked and bewildered.

Festivals:

TROMSØ INTERNASJONALE FILM FESTIVAL, NORWAY, 13.–18.1.2004

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, PARK CITY, USA, 15.–25.1.2004

REEL MUSIC, PORTLAND, USA, 30.–31.1.2004

MIAMI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 30.1.–8.2.2004

SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL ON TOUR, OPENING NIGHT, THE NATIONAL FILM THEATRE, LONDON, UK, 31.1.2004

TRUE / FALSE FILM FESTIVAL, COLUMBIA, USA, 13.–15.2.2004

SCANDINAVIAN HOUSE, NEW YORK, USA, 10.3.2004

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM SUR L´ART, MONTRÉAL, CANADA, 11.–21.3.2004

FESTIVAL DU FILM NORDIQUE, ROUEN, FRANCE, 17.–28.3.2004

DOCAVIV, TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 25.3.–3.4.2004

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2004, OSLO, NORWAY, 29.3.–4.4.2004

FULL FRAME DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL, DURHAM, USA, 1.–4.4.2004

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 2.–17.5.2004

HAIFA CINEMATHEQUE, ISRAEL, 4.–9.4.2004

28th HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, CHINA, 6.–21.4.2004

35th NASHVILLE FILM FESTIVAL, USA, 26.4.–2.5.2004

REAL: LIFE ON FILM, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, PERTH, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA, 1.–31.5.2004

DOCUMENTA MADRID, SPAIN, 7.–16.5.2004
DOCS REVIEW, VARSOVA, POLAND, 14.–21.5.2004

DOXA DOCUMENTARY FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, VANCOUVER, CANADA, 25.–30.5.2004

FILMSTOCK, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, LUTON, UK, 1.–15.6.2004

FINNISH FILM SEASON, BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON, UK, 12.–13.6.2004

The 7th Århus Filmfestival, Denmark, 27.–31.10.2004

Finnish Documentary Film Week, French Institute in Athens, Greece, 14.–20.2.2005

Finnish Documentary Film Week, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2005

Finnish Films at BAM, New York, NY, USA, 3.–8.5.2005

Festroia, Portugal, 28.5.–5.6.2005

Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, 3.–11.9.2006

Filmhaus Kino, Köln, Germany, 17.9., 20.9.2006

The 9th International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 29.9.–5.10.2006

Finnish Film Days, Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, 10.–11.10.2006

Finnish Docs Go Down Under, Finnish Documentary Day in Sydney, Australia, 2.6.2007

Cadiz Film Festival, Cadiz, Spain, 10.–20.9.2008

Washington D.C., USA, 17.9.2008

Scanorama, Vilnius, Lithuania, 13.–30.11.2008

Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK, 14.–20.11.2008

Art Doc Festival, London, UK, 18.11.–8.12.2008

The Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 29.5.–7.6.2009

Screening in Kommunalkino Bremen, Germany, 20.11.2009

Awards & Prizes:

Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway, 13.–18.1.2004
Tromsøpalmen

Production

Klaffi Tuotannot Oy
Nahkatehtaankatu 2
90100 Oulu
Tel. +358 8-8811623
Fax. +358 8-8811624
Email. klaffi@klaffi.com
Internet  www.klaffi.com

Distribution in Finland

Cinema Mondo
Unioninkatu 10 A 27
00130 Helsinki
Tel. +358 201 555 804
Fax. +358 201 555 805
Email. mikas@cinemamondo.fi

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