Sounds Like Teen Spirit is the warmly comic story of childhood, innocence, teen-dreams and singing off-key.
Marrying the affectionate indie humour of Little Miss Sunshine with the charm and emotion of Stand by Me , Sounds Like Teen Spirit follows the journey of 4 loveable-losers to the world s largest children s song-writing contest including all the foibles of growing up along the way.
Featuring music by ABBA, Roxy Music, The Who, Henri Mancini and Belgium s infamous Singing Nun Sounds Like Teen Spirit celebrates the underdog spirit of heroic amateurism in what Variety describes as an irrestistible crowd pleaserÂ… delightful .
MoviePic writes how Teen Spirit leaves you all teary and tenderhearted and IndiePix called it the hit of the festival , following its Toronto Premiere.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit is directed by BAFTA, Broadcast and Gierson nominated best new director Jamie J Johnson and produced by British indie veterans Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley. watch
The final days of one of the truly legendary figures of British rock & roll are explored in this biographical drama, which marks the directorial debut of veteran producer Stephen Woolley. Brian Jones (played by Leo Gregory) was one of the founding members of the Rolling Stones, and his incisive blues guitar style, broad range of musical influences, and striking blond good looks helped establish him as part of the true royalty of the British music scene. But by 1969, Jones' life had begun to spiral out of control; his appetite for drugs made him wildly unreliable, his arrests for possession of marijuana prevented the Stones from touring the United States, his bandmates Mick Jagger (Luke de Woolfson) and Keith Richards (Ben Whishaw) had grown tired of working with him (and envious of the attention he received in the press), and his longtime paramour Anita Pallenberg (Monet Mazur) had become involved with fellow Stone Richards. Worried about Jones' drug abuse, the band's tour manager, Tom watch