Winner — Jury Special Mention

The jury of the “Fifth Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val for Chil­dren”, held last week in Yere­van, Repub­lic of Arme­nia, has awarded BROKEN HILL a “Spe­cial Mention”.

Fes­ti­val Direc­tor Nune Manukyan explained that BROKEN HILL won the spe­cial jury men­tion for “suc­cess­fully mak­ing music an organic ele­ment of the film”.

The Int’l Film Fest for Chil­dren is a non-profit fes­ti­val funded by the Armen­ian Rolan Bykov Foun­da­tion with the goal of “build­ing cul­tural bridges between the chil­dren of all nations”.

And on festivals…Broken Hill has been accepted into the Minsk Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val Listapad (Repub­lic of Belarus) to be held mid Novem­ber. Also at Acco­lade (La Jolla, CA) to be held early January.

Con­grat­u­la­tions again to all involved.

Huge news for Broken Hill

Excit­ing plans are in progress for the domes­tic release of Bro­ken Hill in Aus­tralia. After a series of tests in the US and many fes­ti­val awards gar­nered (with more to come), huge plans are in the works for the film in Aus­tralia. Full details are not avail­able just yet, but stay tuned for very excit­ing announce­ments com­ing soon. Bro­ken Hill is plan­ning to release in Aus­tralia around Feb/Mar 2010.

Free screening of Broken Hill in Utah

There will be a free screen­ing of Bro­ken Hill on Thurs­day Octo­ber 22 at–

Scera The­ater
745 S State, Orem, Utah

The screen­ing will begin at 11:30am. This is a pri­vate screen­ing that has been opened to the pub­lic. Feel free to come along with friends and family

Hot Springs, not named for its weather!!!

The screen­ings at Hot Springs were a suc­cess on many lev­els, and an adven­ture on many oth­ers.  To start — the dates of the screen­ing were plagued by bliz­zards and cold tem­per­a­tures that broke records set in 1932 .  But even in the face of truly treach­er­ous weather, peo­ple came from sur­round­ing towns to see the pic­ture and sup­port the music pro­grams of Edge­mont and Hot Springs SD through their ticket purchases.

Hence the adven­ture — now to the suc­cess… Read more

Extra Screening added in Hot Springs

Due to sell­outs in the two announced ses­sions of Bro­ken Hill in Hot Springs, South Dakota, a sec­ond Sat­ur­day evening ses­sion has been added at 9:30pm.

AND A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT — EACH SCREENING WILL BE INTRODUCED BY BROKEN HILL STAR ALEXA VEGA (Spy Kids 1,2 & 3, Repo; The Genetic Opera and ABC Family’s Ruby & the Rock­its) and EXECUTUVE PRODUCER AND EDGEMONT NATIVE, SEAN COVEL (Napoleon Dyna­mite, Beneath).

Broken Hill Accepted to 3 new festivals

Bro­ken Hill has been accepted into 3 new fes­ti­vals tak­ing it to new mar­kets across the globe.

Ale Kino – Inter­na­tional Young Audi­ence Film Fes­ti­val (Poz­nan, Poland)

African Enter­prise Inter­na­tional Chris­t­ian Film Fes­ti­val (Pieter­mar­itzburg, South Africa)

Dhaka Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val (Dhaka, Repub­lic of Bangladesh)

With the awards received at GIf­foni and Tri­me­dia, Bro­ken Hill is get­ting recog­ni­tion as an enter­tain­ing film suit­able for all audiences.