Broken Hill heads to Atlanta

by Mar­cus E. Howard
mhoward@mdjonline.com

MARIETTA — Film­maker and Walker School alum­nus Chris Wyatt will return home to Cobb on Wednes­day for the release of his newest movie, “Bro­ken Hill,” which pre­mieres at 7:30 p.m. at the Regal Town Cen­ter Stadium-16 The­ater in Kennesaw.

Wyatt is a Hol­ly­wood pro­ducer who has pro­duced sev­eral films, includ­ing the smash hit “Napoleon Dyna­mite,” since grad­u­at­ing from Walker in 1993. Pro­ceeds from the pre­miere will go to the Walker School Annual Fund. Tick­ets are $5 each and can be reserved at walkeralumni.org/brokenhill. Read more

Broken Hill Cinematographer receives award

Nick Matthews, Bro­ken Hill cin­e­matogro­pher, has been rec­og­nized for his amaz­ing work by the  Aus­tralian Cin­e­matog­ra­phers Soci­ety. He took home GOLD at the Aus­tralian Cin­e­matog­ra­phers Soci­ety 2009 Cin­e­matog­ra­phy Awards in the cat­e­gory of “Fea­ture Film — Cinema”.

“He did amaz­ing work, and the ACS has noticed”, pro­ducer Chris Wyatt said.

Broken Hill praised in Seoul

BROKEN HILL star Luke Arnold, writer/director Dagen Mer­rill and pro­duc­ers Chris Wyatt and Julie Ryan were hon­ored to be the invited guests of the Seoul Inter­na­tional Fam­ily Film Fes­ti­val. The film screened mul­ti­ple times dur­ing the fes­ti­val which con­cluded yesterday.

Fes­ti­val direc­tor Bus­iek Park praised the film dur­ing an after-screening Q&A ses­sion, say­ing “we are hon­ored to have this won­der­ful film at the fes­ti­val, as it truly reflects the motto of this year’s fes­ti­val ‘Beau­ti­ful Change’. Tommy’s drive to reach his dream is a great exam­ple to all of us.”

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.

BROKEN HILL WINS BEST FILM

Bro­ken Hill took out the ‘Best Fea­ture Film — Audi­ence Choice’ Award on Sun­day 13^th Sep­tem­ber at the Tri­Me­dia Film Fes­ti­val held in Fort Collins, Col­orado (USA).

Tri­Me­dia Fes­ti­val Site