Mantaray Film

THE CHOIR (2021)

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”