A film about Sweden's most famous choir, Tensta Gospel Choir, and the profound human need of union and spirituality in a secular time.
Production
Genre: Feature Documentary
Director: Amanda Pesikan
Cinematographer: Ellinor Hallin
Sound technician: Anders Lindahl, Shuling Yong
Sound Design: Anders Lindahl
Editor: Oskar Blondell
Producer: Anna Weitz, Stina Gardell
Duration: Feature length + 58 min tv-version
Language: Swedish/English
Financiers & partners: Co-Produced by SVT KSpecial, Strictly Post Production, Film Capital Stockholm, Daniel Sachs Foundation, Jason Diakités Stiftelse with support from The Swedish Film Institute/Juan Pablo Libossart, Filmbasen/Film Stockholm, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee. Early development by Mediabruket/Lisa Wahlbom
Release: 2021
Swedish distributor: Doc Lounge, Jonas Pedersen Hardebrant, jonas@doclounge.se
Selected to Twelve for the Future 2018/2019 and to pitch at Nordisk Panorama 2019
PRESS COVERAGE, A SELECTION
Dagens Industri ”Hon skildrar en svensk plantskola - med finansiering från finansmannen”
SVT Kultur ”Kan man sjunga gospel utan att tro på Gud?”
DN ”Gospelgungande ”Kören” berör och fascinerar”
Kulturbloggen ”Kören - om en härligt medryckande kör i sorg och glädje”
SR P4 ”Hon skildrar konflikt och kärlek i film om Tensta gospel choir”
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