A Million Miles Away, Jennifer Reeder 2013
Jenne Lennon - Arranger, Composer, Conductor

This film features an incredible arrangement of "You've got another thing comin'"
by Jenne and was voted No. 1 on Film Misery's Top 10 musical moments of 2014.



Showed at the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2014
Winner of the Grand Prix 2014 Encounters Film and Animation Festival, England
Winner of the Zonta Prize 2014 Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
Winner of the Audience Award 2014 VIS Vienna Independent Short Film Festival
Winner 2ANNAS Film Festival 2014, Latvia
Winner International Film Festival Bratislava 2014, Slovakia
Winner IndieCork Festival 2014, Ireland
Winner Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2014, Switzerland
Nominated Tiger Award International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014, The Netherlands

Voted No. 1 on Film Misery’s Top 10 Movie Music Moments of 2014

1. “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’” – A Million Miles Away

Figures that I’d hand my top slot out to something that few have the ability to watch just yet, a short film that I saw on a Saturday afternoon at BAMcinemaFest. Jennifer Reeder’s lovely, miniature coming-of-age tale contains two moments worthy of consideration for the top rungs of this list. I’m just compulsively drawn to this nifty choral subversion of a 1980s rock song by Judas Priest. Rather than being sung by earnest children, it’s sung by a group of bored teenagers who are probably rolling their eyes at the emotional breakdown their substitute teacher is having in front of them, countering any base sentimental moments. It’s a moment of true cross-generational empathy, and one that’s so emotionally engrossing that it’s both surprising and heartbreaking when it comes to an end, and so does that unspoken support. The film’s set to show among the Sundance Film Festival short film programs, a position well deserved, and after which it’ll certainly reach wider availability.

Lena Houst

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