NAHJUS ENKELINI on kotimainen elokuvatuotanto, jota kuvataan heinä-elokuun aikana Tampereella ja Vaasassa. Tarina kertoo 6-vuotiaan pojan kasvutarinan taiteilijaksi, lyyrikoksi. Nykypäivään sijoittuvassa, täysin fiktiivisessä tarinassa ”Juice tulee takaisin” opastaakseen poikaa kivikkoisella taiteen tiellä.
Elokuva on kunnianosoitus paitsi Juicelle, myös taiteelle. Alunperäinen idea on tehdä elokuva, joka ei nosta jalustalle yhtä taiteilijaa vaan taidekentän laajemmin. Emme tee henkilökuvaelokuvaa, emme puutu Juicen henkilökohtaiseen elämään millään tasolla.
Elokuvan tuottaa tamperelainen Petsamo Productions Osk ja sen toimitusjohtaja/tuottaja Anna-Karin Tukkiniemi.
Elokuvan pääosissa nähdään Juice-hahmona Ilkka Aro (Porin teatteri) sekä Karoliina Kudjoi ja pikkupojan roolissa Aaro Virtanen. Elokuvan käsikirjoituksesta ja ohjauksesta vastaa Timo Tapio.
Elokuva valmistuu vielä 2016 vuoden puolella ja tulee nähtäväksi ympäri Suomen.
Mikäli ja toivottavasti haluat olla mukana tukemassa uudenlaista kotimaista tarinankerrontaa, voit tutustua vastikkeisiimme.
Curses echo at the Nummi crag when 15-year-old Pamu Hammer takes a long fall off the hardest route in Finland. ”You have to keep trying till your fingers bleed. You can curse, but you have to stay focused. You can’t get upset if it doesn’t go well.”
Cold Rock is a documentary film about a life style sport with deep roots. Up until the past few years, however, it has been virtually unknown to the wider public. Finnish climbing began in 1954, but the diverse history of the sport has not previously been recorded in any form. At the moment climbing is one of the fastest growing individual sports in the country. Numerous recently opened indoor climbing gyms have resulted in tens of thousands of new aficionados, the most talented of which have become world touring professionals.
In the film we hear the stories of, among others, the first Finnish climber Matti A. Jokinen and the young talent Pamu Hammer. Matti’s story is as long as the story of Finnish climbing itself. It begins with a young man hitchhiking in Southern Europe and meanders through ground breaking climbing performances, serious injury, and finally to the present day, where Matti is seen at 81 years of age, still climbing. Pamu, on the other hand, started climbing in the 21st century, guided by his father. When his class mates focus on upcoming exams Pamu’s thoughts are at the crags. His main goal of the season is to climb ”Syncro”, the hardest route in Finland.
The voices of many other Finnish climbers from different decades are also heard in the film. This chain of climbers connecting Matti and Pamu forms the story of climbing in Finland. Cold Rock reveals the 60-year-old face of Finnish climbing: what kinds of stories and people does it involve? How has climbing become so popular in a country with no mountains?
THE DVD
Cold Rock has been screened in theaters and a shorter version has been aired on the Finnish national TV channel Yle TV2. Now it will also be available as a DVD, which includes the full length theater version (71 minutes) with optional English subtitles, as well as over an hour of exclusive extra material: deleted scenes, known and unknown routes, and new stories from the 60-year timeline.
Extras:
Deleted scenes:
Kilpajuoksu Everestille (The race to Everest)
Boulderit kasvaa (The boulders are growing)
Palmurantojen mies (A man of palm trees)
Eklipsi
Moi, mä oon Juha Saatsi! (Hello, I’m Juha Saatsi!)
Jääkiipeilyä Muikkulassa (Ice climbing in Muikkula)
Routes:
Monument
Kansannousu
Majavan paluu
MDMA Numminen
Finnish climbing stories:
Matin kanssa Taivaskalliolla (At Taivaskallio with Matti)
Vesku
Päivä Lappnorin projektilla (A day at the Lappnor project)
THE CAMPAIGN
In order to publish the DVD we need your help! The funds are meant to cover the cost of printing the DVDs, and the licensing fees for the music and archival film material. The minimum goal of 7000 euros will cover these costs, and the maximum goal of 10000 will guarantee a little something for the filmmakers!
The funding options are:
Basic package (20€) – The Cold Rock DVD
Support package 1 (30€) – A signed copy of the DVD, as well as the film and extras as a HD download.
Support package 2 (50€) – A signed DVD, your name in the credits plus the HD download package.
Deluxe package for a group of 10 (1000€) – We take the group bouldering for a day to a ”secret” location, and Blue Kangoo Films produces a video covering the events of the day. Details negotiable. Signed DVD and download included for everyone!
I am Mikko Pettinen, a trumpet player, singer, keyboard player, composer and an arranger from Helsinki. I have been a professional musician for over 20 years and played in dozens of bands, orchestras and vocal groups like Umo Jazz Orchestra, Helsinki – Cotonou Ensemble, Higher Ground Vocals, MP4, Nat Newborn Big Time and Kerkko Koskinen Kollektiivi. About a million people heard me in The Voice Of Finland television show last year.
I have recorded three albums with my jazz quartet MP4, which won the 1st prize in the International jazz group competition in Getxo (Spain, 2002), and an acoustic duo album with an amazing guitarist Teemu Viinikainen. I have also won the 2nd prize in the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition in 2001 and played or sang on more than 100 albums (e.g. Redrama, Paleface, Mariska, Axl Smith, Higher Ground Movement, Kerkko Koskinen Kollektiivi, Asa, Anssi Kela, Antti Kleemola, Sandhja) over the years.
Still Happy – The Pasila Sessions
Mikko Pettinen & Happy People is my pride and joy, my own thing. I am the lead singer, keyboard player, trumpet soloist, composer and arranger of the band.
We have played about 20 gigs with Happy People and last year after a couple of very good festival gigs I had an idea to organize a studio live session with my band. I wanted to capture the energy and soulfulness of the live performance with a good studio quality sound. As a result we recorded 8 new tunes (7 originals of mine and my soulful rendition of the Ben E. King Classic Stand By Me) live in the studio in the Umo´s practice room in YLE´s (Finnish national radio) Radiotalo (Radiohouse) last autumn, companied by a small invited audience. At the same, all of the performances were filmed with professional video cameras.
I think we certainly managed to capture the magic on these sessions. The general atmosphere and the attitude between the musicians, the lightning guy, the sound engineer, the filming team and the live audience was truly wonderful!
A teaser from The Pasila sessions
We didn´t get any kind of grant for the session and there is no record companies involved; everything was organized by me for the love of music and for the passion and commitment I have for my music. Now I wish to publish this amazing material in a cd+dvd -package with your help. The campaign has three goals: the minimum goal is 3500 euros (cd), the medium goal is 5000 euroa (cd+dvd) and the maximum goal 8000 euros (cd+dvd+lp vinyl).
Happy People
The members of the Mikko Pettinen & Happy People are amazing musicians: great team players and extraordinary soloists. Happy People features a 4-piece horn section and a soulful vocal trio TriSis. On the Pasila sessions the original member of the TriSis, Jonnu Heikkilä, who also wrote the lyrics for 5 of the tunes, is replaced by an amazing Finnish soul singer Heini Ikonen.
“If our music will make you smile, we know our job is well done.”
– Happy People Theme (Everybody Get Up, written by Mikko Pettinen)
My compositions are combination of old school soul, funk, r&b, neosoul, jazz, gospel, pop and afrofunk and still have some Finnish ingredient on it. Some of my influences are Stevie Wonder, Tower Of Power, Earth, Wind & Fire, Steely Dan, Anthony Hamilton, Snarky Puppy and Jarrod Lawson.
Audiences´responses have always been enthusiastic and highly positive and supportive on our gigs. My debut album as a singer ”2Happy” has received dozens of very positive reviews and there are less than 100 copies of the cd-album left, but you can still get one as a campaign reward from here.
Mikko Pettinen & Happy People is:
Mikko Pettinen: lead vocals, Rhodes piano, keyboards, trumpet, flugelhorn
Janne Halonen: guitars, vocals
Sampo Tiittanen: bass
Jonatan Sarikoski: drums
William Suvanne: tenor saxophone, flute
Janne Toivonen: trumpet
Ilmari Pohjola: trombone
Timo Rantanen: baritone saxophone
Jepa Lambert: vocals
Heini Ikonen: vocals
Hanna-Maria Helenius: vocals, lead vocals with Mikko on Waiting (For My Change)
In addition to Live in Pasila session:
Markus Ketola: sound engineer, mixing, mastering
Heikki Kynsijärvi & Joni Laitinen: video production
Ville Pajala/DLS Entertainment: lightning design
The Goal
Our plan is to release all of the tunes as a cd and a dvd in the same package.
– If we will reach the minimum 3500€, we will release a cd
– If we will reach the medium goal 5000€, we can release a cd+dvd
– If we will reach the maximum goal 8000€, we will have enough money to pay for a promotion and release the music also as a vinyl and pay for the musicians who spent two very long days in the studio for free
Why do we need the crowdfunding campaign for?
It is very hard, almost impossible to find a record company in Finland to release soul/funk music. The record companies release mostly commercial pop music in Finnish, yet Happy People’s music is not jazz enough for the small jazz labels (there aren´t too many of those either…). On the other hand, it is still too “pop” for the foundations that give grants for the art projects/releases. So my music is truly in the marginal and on the so called “grey area”. However, I believe that the most important thing about the development and the future of music is when the different styles and genres blend. That´s what happened in these sessions and I am really happy that we were able to do the sessions. I sincerely believe in my music and hope that it will make the world a little bit better place. Not to mention everyone wanted to do their best and even more at the sessions. So put on the good headphones, turn up the volume and listen to our videos and you´ll understand what I mean…
I truly believe that these sessions deserve to be released.
You can participate in a various ways:
1. You can preorder my cd for 20€ or the cd+dvd for 25€ with or without my autograph*
2. You can buy my 2Happy cd for 15€
3. You can preorder my cd or cd+dvd and get your name or your company´s name on the special thanks list on the cd and the dvd for 40€*
4. You can have your company´s logo printed on the cd+dvd package and on my website for 400€
5. You can order me to have a private gig at your party or at your house for 500€ (plus the travel expenses)
6. You can order my 5-piece Happy People Combo for the private gig for 2000€ (plus travel expenses)
* if we reach the minimum goal but not the medium goal, we’ll refund you the 5 euros difference
“Smoke smoke smoking!!!!!!!!!!!Please don’t call the firemen,Don’t dare to put water on this fire. Let it BURN, BURN ,BURN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -a YouTube comment for the video “Happy People Theme (Everybody Get Up)
Thank you for helping me to fulfill my dream and supporting new Finnish music.
Turbojugend chapters spread across the globe – all the way from Hawaii to Tokyo – and there are over 1700 chapters now. ‘We just want have a good time all the time’ is a documentary of the Finnish chapters and members. Still, this isn’t merely a story for Turbojugend members. It’s a story for everyone who are interested in alternative music and culture and about the fact how these things bring together people around the world. That is we’ll include also a short segment of Turbonegro’s and Turbojugend’s history – told by the band itself and the jugends concerned.
Turbojugend members will obviously be the main stars of this documentary, but it will also include interviews of well known Finnish musicians like Ville Valo from HIM and Tomi Joutsen from Amorphis. Because we also want to have a scandinavian point of view to this story and some of it takes place at least in Oslo, Stockholm and Hamburg, there will also be some interviews with foreign jugends and musicians. Turbojugend activities and events are a major part of the phenomenon and the documentary will be following mostly Finnish events – including various sport tournaments, boat cruises, chapter anniversaries, etc. Every year the main event globally for Turbojugends is hosted by Turbojugend St. Paul in Hamburg during the summer. It is called Weltturbojugendtage and it gathers members around the world together to party for this week long period. The essence of Turbojugend can be found in the title of this documentary. Turbojugend brings together different kind of people who share the love for music and urge to enjoy life.
Filming of the documentary started in November 2015 and will continue until the end of 2016. The production crew is as follows: Jukka Pihlajaniemi (director/producer/editor), Jyrki Rahkola (co-producer), Tiina Hasa & EP Mäkinen (videography) and Jussi Kraft (sound editor). Everyone in the crew are either Turbojugend members or musicians. Pihlajaniemi has directed a lot of music videos and commercials. Rahkola is also the AmbASSador of Turbojugend Finland. So besides the vision this crew also has the contacts needed to give the documentary the depth and perspective it deserves.
The nature of the documentary demands a lot of travelling around Finland, Scandinavia and Germany. This is where your help comes crucial! This crowdfunding is essential for us to cover the travel and possibly some of the post-production expenses also. Your support will define the size of the crew and destinations we can include on the documentary. This an opportunity to help us create something that will last for generations and something that can entertain and serve as a positive example to people around the world!
This approx. 50 minutes long documentary will be finished and hopefully released on Q2 of 2017. Follow the progress of the documentary on Facebook and Instagram.
“2.000 euros Audience Award is internationally a remarkable encouragement in the field of dance film festivals. That sum allows you to do a lot! It could be start for the next short film production. It would be wonderful to be able to concentrate just on filmmaking for a whole month and not to worry about other things.”
(A filmmaker, Loikka Dance Film Festival 2016)
Loikka Audience Award
Loikka festival program’s over 50 dance films consist different dance styles from breakdance to ballet from all over the world. Audience Award is an important encouragement for the filmmaker both financially and as recognition. The award shows the appreciation of the audience can help to get international attention for the film. A Successful crowdfunding campaign would prove that dance film has a dedicated international audience who wants to show their support for the art form.
Join the movement and take a leap for dance filmmakers!
We hope that this campaign brings joy for you as much as it brings it to us and the dance filmmakers! You can support the cause by entering the mesenaatti campaign page and choose your favourite from our rewards. Is it the ticket package for the festival or perhaps a private dance film screening in your living room curated especially for you? What ever suits you the best. For the very first time we also offer a possibility to pre-vote your favourite dance film online! This works if you can’t visit the festival or if you just want to give an extra vote for your favorite film or filmmaker.
The actual voting takes place on Loikka festival in April. The winner of Loikka Audience Award will be announced on 10th of April at Loikka Awards.
Loikka Audience Award, collected by crowdfunding campaign, is a remarkable acknowledgement for the filmmaker directly from the audience
Our campaign’s minimum target is 1000€ and the maximum is 2000€. All the income will be directed to the monetary award. To be so lucky to exceed the target, all the money over 2.000 euros will be transferred to Loikka 2017’s Audience Award.
Please feel free to spread the word! Tell your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. It means a lot to us. Thank you for your support.
To keep up with all the news and turns of the campaign check out Loikka on Facebook and Instagram @loikkadance.
The ecosystems and cultures of the Arctic are beautiful and inspiring – yet at the same time fragile. We believe that we have a lot to learn from people living in the Arctic, in closer connection to the world around them. That the Arctic is so much more than just an empty, icy landscape – it is alive, fascinating, full of stories.
We passionately believe the Arctic is an inspiring place, and we want to share this with you.
So we put together this festival.
Like a snowball turning into an avalanche, artArctica festival is a small idea grown big: we’re now hosting photography exhibitions, installations, dance and music performances, feature films and short film selections – and we are lucky to have participants from every corner of the Arctic: Greenland, Canada, Russia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands.
In the final stages of production, we have come a long way – and now we need your support to ensure we produce a high-quality event, for both artists and audience.
We still need to cover certain travel expenses for the artists, as well as production expenses like printing large-format photographs and securing royalties rights for the films. By supporting this project, you are directly supporting grass-roots art-making in the Arctic.
We are lucky to be supported by cultural foundations and grants, as well as various independent groups and
organisations – and we need one last nudge, and that’s you. It’s the person we’re making this festival for: the
Arctic enthusiast (even if you don’t know it yet), the artist, the admirer, the traveller, the story-teller. You. We
need you, because without you our festival is just a private show.
So help us make this festival a beautiful and unforgettable get-together – and be part of something bigger. Whether you can visit the festival, or live far away, but think this is the kind of thing that is worth happening, you can support us in one way or another.
It is happening in collaboration with the following organisations:
Global Music Centre (FI)
City-Sámit (FI)
Walhalla Film (FI)
Finnish Arctic Club (FI)
Arctic Museum Nanoq (FI)
Skábmagovat Film Festival (FI)
Uummannaq Polar Institute (GL)
Arctic Arts Institute (RU)
Äänimaisemassa rautainen lapio osuu routaiseen maahan kerta toisensa jälkeen, muuten on aivan hiljaista. Valokuvassa isoisä ja lapsenlapsi vastatusten pellonlaidalla. Isoisä uskoutuu lapsenlapselleen:
”Kun olin nuori, niin minulla oli vaikeammat työt. Jouduin routaiseen maahan hautaamaan naapureita.”
Tervetuloa mukaan
Suomen sisällissodasta on kulunut vain vähän alle 100 vuotta. On tärkeää, että sisällissodan tapahtumista keskustellaan yhä. Voit olla mukana luomassa keskustelulle tila, jossa yhteiskunnan haavat voivat parantua. Haemme rahoitusta Kahtia jaettua kansa -dokumentille, joka kuvaa menneisyyttämme ja nykytilaa jämsänjokilaaksolaisten kokemuksissa, jotta voisimme saattaa työmme loppuun. Kuvaukset ovat loppusuoralla ja olemme siirtymässä jälkituotantovaiheeseen. Haemme rahoitusta siis pääasiassa jälkituotantoon, joka käsittää editointia, äänitöitä, arkistomateriaalin liittämistä ja musiikkia. Osa tällä joukkorahoituskampanjalla saatavasta rahoituksesta tullaan ohjaamaan dokumentin markkinointiin ja levittämiseen valmistumisen jälkeen. Dokumentin on tarkoitus olla valmis viimeistään syksyllä 2016. Dokumentin edistymistä voi seurata Facebookissa.
Sinulla on mahdollisuus olla avuksi myös jakamalla tietoa tästä joukkorahoituskampanjasta esimerkiksi sosiaalisessa mediassa. Käy myös tykkäämässä sivuistamme Facebookissa. Olemme kiitollisia kaikesta saamastamme avusta. Laitetaan sana kiertämään!
Mistä dokumentissa on kysymys
On aikainen kevät ja tehtaan piiput puhaltavat paperisavua siniselle taivaalle. On hiljaista, ainoa ääni tulee tehtaan nukuttavasta huminasta. Harvalukuiset kulkijat kävelevät tai ajavat kohti päivän askareitaan. Kaikki on niin kuin ennenkin. Kuitenkin pinnan alla kuplii jotain ja se jokin saa muodon ihmisten asenteissa, suhtautumisessa toisiinsa. Se nousee keskusteluun, kun paikallislehdet kirjoittavat sisällissodan tapahtumista tai uutisoivat itsenäisyyspäivän kynttiläkulkueesta tai tulevasta kuntaliitoksesta Jämsän ja Jämsänkosken välillä. ”Lahtari” ei ole vieras sana kansalaiskeskustelussa, jota käydään esimerkiksi netin keskustelupalstoilla ja nettijuttujen kommenttiosioissa.
Paikallishistoriotsija Hannu Ahlstedt
Kahtia jaettu kansa -dokumenttielokuva antaa äänen nimenomaan paikallisille ihmisille. Se tekee näkyväksi sisällissodan jättämän trauman ja sen, kuinka tämä trauma on muokannut suhteita paikallisyhteisössä. Näkyviksi tulevat tietysti myös sisällissodan tapahtumat ja se miten niistä kerrottiin ja kuinka muistot kulkivat suvuissa. Tarkoituksena on tavoittaa se, kuinka kaikki tämä koetaan nykyhetkessä ja kuinka kahtiajako elää suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa edelleen. Sisällissodan tapahtumat vaikuttivat ihmisiin ja ihmissuhteisiin molemmin puolin. Dokumentti pyrkii tavoittamaan näkökulman, joka kertoo kokemuksista mahdollisimman monipuolisesti.
Dokumentti rakentuu vanhan arkkiveisun ympärille. Voit kuulla osan veisua kampanjavideossa. Joidenkin paikallisten mukaan se kertoi aikanaan Jämsän tapahtumista vuonna 1918 paremmin kuin mikään historiankirja. Veisun avulla peilataan vuoden 1918 tapahtumia nykypäivässä ja nykymaisemassa. Näin eri aikatasojen välille syntyy vuoropuhelu. Dokumentti kulkee eteenpäin haastattelujen avulla. Dokumentissa tavataan joukko erilaisista taustoista tulevia ihmisiä. Heitä kaikkia kuitenkin yhdistävät muistot ja kokemukset nykypäivässä liittyen vuoden 1918 tapahtumiin. Tapaamme paikallislehden toimittajan, paikallishistorioitsijan, työväenyhdistysaktiivin ja kartanon torpparin perillisen neljännessä polvessa. Tarkoituksena on tuoda kuuluviin niin punaisen kuin valkoisen sukutaustan omaavan henkilön ääni. Heidän kokemuksistaan ja muistoistaan rakentuu Jämsän ja Jämsänkosken nykytilaa selittävä kehys. Yleistä ilmapiiriä pyritään kuvaamaan katugallupeilla. Vahvana punaisena lankana tarinaa kuljettaa eteenpäin kahden kaupungin, Jämsän ja Jämsänkosken, ikiaikainen suhde, joka on ollut hyvin vaikea pitkän aikaa. Se juontaa juurensa vuoteen 1918, jolloin Jämsänkoski oli punainen tehdasyhteisö ja Jämsä identifioitui enemmän valkoiseksi alueeksi suurine kartanoineen. Väkivallan kuukaudet jättivät pysyvät jäljet paikkakuntien, Jämsän ja Jämsänkosken, sieluun ja paikkakuntalaisiin. Dokumentti pureutuu myös tähän syntyneeseen kahtiajakoon tämän päivän Jämsässä (yhdistyneet Jämsä ja Jämsänkoski).
Kotimaisen dokumenttikulttuurin tukeminen on hieno lahja hänelle, jolla on jo kaikkea. Kahtia jaettu kansa – dokumenttielokuvan aihe voi myös olla monelle tärkeä. Lopputekstejä lukuun ottamatta voit ostaa Kahtia jaettu kansa -dokumenttielokuvan vastikkeita myös joululahjaksi. Vaikka itse dokumentti valmistuu vasta syksyn 2016 aikana, saat halutessasi ennen joulua sähköpostitse tulostettavan kunniakirjan, jonka voit antaa lahjan saajalle. Tyylikkäässä kunniakirjassa kerrotaan dokumentista ja vastikkeesta, jonka lahjan saaja saa myöhemmin vuoden 2016 aikana. Jos haluat tulostettavan kunniakirjan hankkimastasi vastikkeesta, laita sen ostamisen jälkeen sähköpostia osoitteeseen: kahtiajaettukansa@gmail.com. Kerro sähköpostissa hankkimasi vastike sekä lahjan saajan nimi ja postiosoite. Mustavalkoinen ja pdf-muodossa oleva kunniakirja lähetetään sinulle sähköpostitse viikon 51 aikana (14.–20.12.). Kunniakirjan viimeinen tilauspäivä on sunnuntai 19.12.
Tuija Rantalainen is a singersongwriter from Helsinki and in November she will release a new single and music video . The new song tells a story of an ordinary, homeless man and his dog. Last year Tuija spent some time in Paris and saw many homeless people with their dogs. The experience inspired her to create “Le Chien de Pont Neuf”.
Casting
The leading actor in Tuija’s video is ”Dakota”, a stray dog. The main male actor is Veini Nupponen. Also Tuija and her band’s musicians Timo Tuppurainen and
Juha Mäntylä perform on the video. Videos script was written by Tuija and Juha Sihtola will film and edit it.
Tuija Rantalainen
Tuija Rantalainen has released 4 albums and her songs can be heard in Radio Suomi and Swedens Sisuradio. Her genre is theatre music and storytelling and poor people are often the main characters in her songs. She makes music also for children.
Tuija needs funding to be able to cover all the costs for this new video. The money she
will get from YouTube will be donated for homeless people and organisation called Vailla Vakinaista Asuntoa ry.
So what is this all about? Northern Marginal festival is a culture attack on multiple fronts and packed with the boldest sounds of Finland, the Finnish forest and some pretty unique films and music documentaries. The festival program consists of three independent sections: mømø [mːːøˑmø] , Syndrome and In the Icelandic Woods.
mømø [mːːøˑmø]
The music section, mømø, treats the Icelandic crowd to a diverse lineup of the reigning Finnish music genre’s together with local amazing talents in downtown Reykjavík where the bands will take the stage at clubs, in a church and by the pool. The lineup includes folk metal band Finntroll, black metal band Black Crucifixion, classically trained organist Pétur Sakari, multi talented musicians and DJ’s Jimi Tenor and Jori Hulkkonen and the punk explosion Räjäyttäjät! Miss this and you’ll be crying about it later!
Syndrome – Moving pictures with a different perspective
The films of Syndrome presents the marginal phenomenons of the Finnish music scene through an assorted selection of narratives from documentary to surrealistic vision.
The film program includes the works of such independent directors as Jimi Tenor & Jusu Lounela, CHRZU, Pete Eurooppa, Sami Kettunen and Jani Volanen. Especially chosen for the festival are also the acclaimed films Kovasikajuttu/Punk Syndrome (Kärkkäinen & Passi 2008) and Punk – tauti joka ei tapa/Punksters and Youngsters (Aaltonen 2008).
In the Icelandic Woods brings the forest to a land with no trees!
In the Icelandic Woods exhibition invites you to experience in multiple ways and on a multi sensory level what the forest an the well being of, from and by the forest means for the Finnish people.
The exhibition presents the forest in shapes of design, music, art, travel, leisure, well being, technical heritage and also seen through the eyes of those inspired by the forest: Jean Sibelius, Pekka Halonen and Akseli Gallen-Kallela among others.
Be a part of a culture festival destined for Iceland and breaking ground in the heart of Reykjavík. Northern Marginal Festival is a culture explosion made by the people for the people! And if you can’t make it in real life you can dance the mömö, experience the Syndrome or get lost in the Icelandic Woods right in the comfort of your own home by purchasing you own piece of Northern Marginal from our online gift shop. By supporting Northern Marginal Festival with even the smallest contribution, you help organize the festival, enable the artists to get to and from Iceland to play awesome tunes for you. Most importantly, with your support Finnish culture export can go further, reaching more people and continue spreading. And who knows, maybe next year Northern Marginal Festival will be organized in your town!
Similar beliefs and stories have also been known in other religions such as the Mari native religion. We want to bring these stories back to life through this documentary film, which will be fully subtitled in English.
Finnish native religion and mythology are one of the most compelling ethnic sagas in the world. Yet Finnish mythology remains quite unknown in comparison to, for example, roman or norwegian myths. We want to show our ancestors’ beautiful legacy to the world before it is too late.
“Through my work, I have always wanted to familiarize and promote Finnish mythology. I have wanted to bring it closer to people. The whole concept of Finnish mythology is incredibly vast, deep and enchanting. The Finnish myths have existed for ages and it is important to keep these stories alive in the modern day”, says A.W. Yrjänä.
In the heart of Finnish folklore, tradition and native religion is community. Through Ukonvaaja we can all be part of a community preserving these traditional beliefs that are still a part of our customs, celebrations and proverbs.
By participating in this crowdfunding campaign you can ensure that our children and children’s children remember these amazing stories!
Choose your reward and be part of something amazing!
