FREAK OUT! - THE ALTERNATIVE MOVEMENT BEGINS
Director: Carl Javér
Long-haired barefoot people. Free love! Veganism! Experiments with drugs... The sixties, right? Not quite.In the year 1900 a group of middle class kids revolted against their time and started the original alternative community - Monte Verità, the mountain of truth. A community based on veganism, feminism, pacifism and free love.Incorporating interviews, archive and animation, the documentary is a beautiful, creative amalgamation that takes the viewer back to the early 1900s, as seen through the eyes of these young radicals.
For more information visit: www.freakoutmovie.org
PRODUCTION FACTS
Release: 2014
Duration: 89 mins
Director: Carl Javér
Producer: Fredrik Lange for Vilda Bomben Film, Sweden
Co-producers: Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real, Denmark
Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de. filmproduktion, DE), Sean Wheelan (Filmgate Films, SE), Christian Lien-Jensen (Hallum og Jensen, NO), Jessica Ask ( Film i Väst, SE), MDR
Cinematographers: Henrik Bohn Ipsen, DFF, Carl Javér, Lars Skree
Voice of Ida Hoffman: Iben Hjejle
Sound Design: Henrik Gugge Garnov
Interviewees: Eileen Boris, Pat Thane, Andreas Schwab, Hermann Muller,
Gordon Kennedy, Gottfried Heuer, Christian Bachhiesl, Nikolaus Brauns, Liz Aggiss,Valerie Preston-Dunlop, Jochen Thermann
Original Score: Kjetil Schjander-Larsen
Animation Design: Carl Javér, Fredrik Lange
Editor: Carl Javér
Commissioning Editors: Winifred König MDR, Emelie Persson SVT, Tore Tomter NRK,
Flemming Hedegaard-Larsen DR, Jenny Westergård YLE, Johanna Johansdottir RUV
Commisioners: Cecila Lidin SFI, Lars G Lindström SFI, Helle Hansen DFI, Maria Fuglevaag Warsinska-Varsi NFI, Ola Hunnes NFIarolina Lidin NFTVF, FIV
Supported by: SFI, DFI, NFI, MEDIA Programme, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Swedish Arts
Grants Committee
Contact
General Inquiries
Signe Byrge Sørensen
byrge(at)final-cut.dk
awards
Main Award & Audience Award - Green Film Festival in Seoul/South Korea
Honorary Mention Award at Tempo Film Festival/Sweden
Grand Prix & Main Award at World Media Festival/Germany
Main Award at Makedox/Macedonia
Main Award & Eleonora Roosevelt Award at Utopia Film Festival/USA
Prémio Série Award CineEco Seia Film Festival/Portugal
Audience Award at Cinema Planeta/Mexico
Nominations:
Best Film Editing: EDITH Awards, Sweden
FESTIVAL
Gothenburg IFF, Sweden, Tempo Docs Stockholm, Sweden, World Media FIlm Festival Hamburg, Germany, DOXA Vancouver, Canada, DOK NO, Haugesund 2014, Norway, Docville - Leuven, Belgium, UnderHill - Podgorica, Montenegro, MAKEDOX - Skopje, Macedonia, Milano IFF, Italy, Utopia Film Festival - Washington DC, USA, Green Film Festival Seoul, South Korea, Tempo Docs Stockholm, Sweden, Docudays - Kiev, Ukraine.