Se on internet suuri paikka....

Voima-lehden loistava arvostelu Kaverista.
http://fifi.voima.fi/artikkeli/Ecce+homo/2752

Kaveri on seuraavan kerran nähtävillä seuraavilla festareilla.
You can see Kaveri on these festivals. With subtitles. Jeah!

Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, 23.4.-30.4.

And you just missed these ones. Sorry!

Minimalen Short Film Festival, Norge (6.-10.3.)
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen (18.-22.3.)

But now we are even, because we banned them! Kaveri - A mate is still on line, only for you, only in beuatiful-art loving-liberal-rainbowish VIMEO.

Enjoy the film once it is still there! We prefer Vimeo because they obviously love short films.

It is only in Finnish, without subtitles, but do not worry! We are proud to present a competition for all of you non-finnish-speakers. First of all, you all should learn Finnish, because it is a beautiful and colorful language. But before that:

Send us your suggestion for subtitles to kaveri.mate@gmail.com. Since you have absolutely no idea, what the characters are talking about, we may end up having something really funny in our hands.

The winner gets a free Kaveri - A mate dvd with subtitles. And how do we know who is the best? The jury is god-like, award winning and always right - Teemu and Jani of course.

Let´s cut the crab - leikataan rapu. Hyvää elokuvahetkeä - enjoy the film!

After Sundance it is time to look at A Mate´s past. We have been very very lucky!

Prizes

Seattle International Film Festival 2008, Special Jury Prize for Short Film
Darryl's Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival (Toronto, Canada), Favorite Foreign Film Award
Tabor Film Festival, Special Mention for Short Fiction

Shortlisted

Festival International du Court-Métrage Clermont-Ferrand, France, 1.–9.2.2008
Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland, 5.-9.3.2008
Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada, 10.–15.6.2008
62nd Edinburgh International Film Festival, UK, 18.–29.6.2008
Audiovisuales, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, September 2008
Curtocircuito, V International Short Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain, 17.–24.10.2008
Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany, 29.10.–2.11.2008
Alcine – Festival de cine de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 7.–15.11.2008
23rd Brest European Short Film Festival, France, 8.–16.11.2008
Flickerfest 18th International Australian Short Film Festival & Short Film,  8th –19th January 2009
International Short Film Festival Leuven
Festival Alcine, Madrid
17th Sequence short film Festival, Toulouse France
16th IFF ArtfilmTrencianske Teplice / Trencin
International short film festival Tinklai
Festival Internacional de Filmets de Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Rooftop, Underground Movies Outdoors, Brooklyn, NYC
Festival Internacional Jovenes Realizadores, Granada ESPAÑA
Sundance Film Festival, Utah, USA, 15.-25.1.2009

Kaveri has also been screened here

Kettupäivät
Vinokino
Midnight Sun Film festival
Rakkautta ja anarkiaa, Helsinki International Film Festival

Next possibility to see Kaveri on big screen

11th Mecal International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, 27 Mar - 5 Apr 2009

I hope that it disapears some day. I am pretty certain that it will happen, but you´ll never know. Here are some feelings from Sundance closing party.

This is Lee Daniels, the director of Push. They earned the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Dramatic Audience Award. We hope you feel it too!

Wanna know more about the film. Click this for Lee´s interview.

And here are the people behind The Cove, the film that won the Audience Award for U.S. Doc. Director is a great guy! Had a chat with him, he was one of those rare guys who already had friends in Finland before too. He knew the people behind Graffiti Meissä...

  Check out Eric´s interview.

Vaikka olemmekin kotona, tavaraa tänne tulee lisää. Ohjelmassa vielä ehkäpä jopa tällä viikolla:

Mitä tehdä ja miten - Sundance-setä tarinoi.
Kaveri - A mate - kyllä vain, se ihan oikea lyhytelokuva, ensimmäistä kertaa internetin ihmemaassa.

Helsinki-Vantaa! Ah, ihanaa!

His name is Tai Robison (I think) and in addition to Telemarks he also has a car, which works both with ethanol and methan (metaani, mikä ikinä se onkaan englanniksi) He drove me home from arter partys after party. When driving, he screened me a documentary in his bio-mobile.