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Robert nomination for A leaf falls to the sky

Since 2008 I’ve been working on a documentary together with my friend Anders Birch. In august we finally finished it, got accepted at CPH:dox and this sunday we got nominated for a Robert award for best short documentary. We are of course both happy and proud (and a wee bit surprised).

Unfortunately there isn’t planned any viewings at the moment, but we’re crossing our fingers that telly  *looking at you DR* will show it – as we (stating the obvious here) think the story is important. The documentary is called  “A leaf falls to the sky” (Et blad falder til himlen) and has the writer Knud Romer as main character in a story about life and death, growing up –  and most importantly about how we in our society treat the elderly like they don’t belong, like it’s okay to store them in facilities – “care” homes, like caged animals.

SXSW: Barbershop Punk (film)

Filmen Barbershop Punk handler om den lille mands kamp mod systemet – for freedom of speech – i bedste Michael Moore-stil.
Computernørden og barbershop-sangeren Robb Topolski sætter sig for at dele gamle barbershop-sange via p2p (torrents), så unge kan opdage denne vidundelige form for musik, og opdager, at hans udbyder Comcast begrænser hans download. Han giver sig til at dokumentere begrænsningerne og blogger om det. Historien eskalerer, AP og NYTimes samler den op – og det hele ender på bedste amerikanske vis i en retssag mod Comcast.
Jeg gik primært ind for at se filmen p.g.a. medvirkende som Henry Rollins, Janeane Garofalo og Damian Kulash fra OK GO – i det hele taget har filmen et imponerende lineup af kendte og mindre kendte, og selvom jeg synes, at kampen for freedom of speech bliver sat en smule på spidsen, så har filmen et par gode pointer.

Du kan læse mere om Barbershop Punk, samt se trailer for filmen her
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