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CONDUCTIVITY

ORKESTERIN EDESSÄ

By Anna-Karin GRÖNROOS

Documentary - Completed 2020

How does one become a leader?
Young conductors are in search of their place
in the hierarchical world of classical music.

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Documentary, Art - Culture
- Countries
- FINLAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH, FINNISH, MANDARIN
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 75 mn
- Director(s)
- Anna-Karin GRÖNROOS
- Producer(s)
- Velna HELLSTEDT (Tuffi Films)
- Synopsis
- Conductivity is a film about creative leadership told through the story of three young conductors; I-Han Fu from Taiwan, Emilia Hoving from Finland and James
  Kahane from France. They study orchestral conduction in the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland.
  We follow them on their rocky road, where tension, anxieties and elements out of their control can create insurmountable obstacles.
  The film addresses the theme of leadership by looking at communication: What creates authority? What sort of characteristics make a person a leader? Can one decide to be a leader or is it for others to decide? What kind of meaning can a look or its absence convey? A good leader is strong without being gruff, friendly without being weak, humble without being fearful. Leadership means bringing out your own vision and making it real so it is conveyed to the world around you. Conductor training, in essence, is leadership training.