Air Guitar in Oulu is a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Kent Sobey. The film follows the quest of Andrew "Air Raid" Buckles as he attempts to raise enough funds to travel to Oulu

Oulu

Oulu is a city and municipality of inhabitants in the region of Northern Ostrobothnia, in Finland. It is the most populous city in Northern Finland and the sixth most populous city in the country. It is one of the northernmost larger cities in the world....

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 for the Air Guitar World Championships. His efforts include bake sales and street performance, backed by a boom box, of his air guitar

Air guitar

Playing air guitar is a form of dance and movement in which the performer pretends to play rock or heavy metal-style electric guitar, including riffs, solos, etc. Playing an air guitar usually consists of exaggerated strumming and picking motions and is often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching...

 techniques.

Awards and press

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...

called Air Guitar in Oulu "Lovely and Hilarious". The film was acquired for broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the US and Bravo! in Canada. Air Guitar in Oulu is distributed by iThentic

IThentic

iThentic is an online and mobile video content production and distribution company based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. iThentic concentrates on production of original content as well as aggregation of content created solely by independent video producers for mobile and online presentation.- History...

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External links

• Official website
• Kent Sobey on iThentic short videos by Kent Sobey at iThentic
  IThentic
  iThentic is an online and mobile video content production and distribution company based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. iThentic concentrates on production of original content as well as aggregation of content created solely by independent video producers for mobile and online presentation.- History...