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Sunday 11.3.2001
Hood Takes the Junior Jury's Vote
A junior jury, made up of Tampere high-school students, viewed the International Competition films together with the festival's International Jury. A similar junior jury attended the Finnish Competition screenings.
Janne Happonen (Sampo High School), Vesa Oksanen (Messukylä High School), Lauri Oravirta (Kaarila High School), and Outi Urpilainen (Tampere's Yhteiskoulu High School) were enlisted by their schools' Finnish teachers to make up the International Junior Jury. The jury members described their taste in films as eclectic.
Complexity and compromise
They selected Sylvia Dahmen's Hood, a story about growing up.
"The storytelling of Hood skillfully combines old tales with the cruel reality of today's world. The young girl goes through her adolescence and dark forests. Homo homini lupus."
Hood was the first film the jury viewed, which may have helped it stick in their minds, they note. To reach a decision acceptable to all, they debated and experimented with different ways of voting and counting points.
Eventually they reached their compromise. However, PV Lehtinen's Hyppääjä (The Diver), Olivier Masset-Depasse's Chambre Froide, and Frederic Pelle's Des Morceaux de ma Femme (Pieces of My Wife) were on their short list.
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