Family Meeting
Heikki Kossi:
Family Meeting (Finland, 2007)
70 min - 35 mm - Finnish / English. No English subtitles.
Production: Mokul Film Oy
Director and band present at the screening.
Family Meeting tells a unique story about people behind music. The film was shot during the fall 2006, in and around the 20th anniversary concert of the Wentus Blues Band, also on their home turf in Ostrobotnia, Finland. It's a delicious mash-up of backstage life and passionate stage performances. The film features an impressive line-up of rock and blues legends, such as Eddie Kirkland and Louisiana Red, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, Kim Wilson from the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Omar Dykes from Omar & The Howlers, Barrence Whitfield - lead singer of The Savages, Sven Zetterberg and Clas Yngström from Sweden, Eric Bibb, plus Lazy Lester from the States, deep south. All of the above-mentioned guests have a long history with the Wentus Blues Band.
The film is about the family meeting of these musicians, where cotton and potato fields, joy, tolerance, and above all the immortal, shared moments within the Blues are intertwined.
Family Meeting is not only an extraordinary film of what being a musician is really about, but it also captures valuable essentials about music from the cultural history standpoint: play that you feel, feel that you play!
GOR -SCREENING
Heikki Kossi
Production company Mokul Filmi was founded in 2003. Mokul Filmi Oy is an independent film production company located in Kälviä, Finland and is focused on cinematic quality documentaries. Mokul Film Oy is owned by Heikki Kossi (director, producer, sound designer) and Robban Hagnäs (producer). Heikki Kossi has also produced the documentaries Family Meeing, Mississippi-Nedervetil and The Hymn Singer. Mississippi-Nedervetil was awarded in New York (International festival of Cinema and Technology, 2003).
