How to see Broken Hill in Australia

Bro­ken Hill has been selected as the Fea­ture Film for the inau­gural SEASON of Aus­Civics Film Fes­ti­vals. Visit www.auscivics.org.au to find out where you can see Bro­ken Hill AT AN AUSTRALIAN loca­tion near you.

Giffoni-Bahrain Film Festival

BROKEN HILL has been selected to play in the Giffoni-Bahrain Film Fes­ti­val, the first ever review of films for youth and chil­dren of its kind to ever be held any­where in the Per­sian Gulf.

“This is a totally cool, ground break­ing thing, and I am so proud of the whole team” said Chris Wyatt, Bro­ken Hill Pro­ducer.

The fes­ti­val will play on July 12 – 16.

Broken Hill Australian release announced

‘BROKEN HILL TO BE THE INAUGURAL FEATURE FILM FOR A MAJOR NEW AUSTRALIAN FESTIVAL’

To all those who have been won­der­ing about delayed tim­ing and the why’s and wherefore’s of a major release of Bro­ken Hill the movie, here is our defin­i­tive answer. Read more

Broken Hill a hit in Hawaii

Bro­ken Hill screened at two film fes­ti­vals in Hawaii this month and received high hon­ors at both.

- The Big Island Film Fes­ti­val awarded Bro­ken Hill ‘Best For­eign Feature’.

Held from May 12 – 16, 2010, this marks the fifth year of Big Island Film Fes­ti­val. This “Talk Story” film fes­ti­val is a cel­e­bra­tion of inde­pen­dent nar­ra­tive film­mak­ers and their short and fea­ture films.

Movies, spe­cial events, Hawai­ian cul­ture, Hawai­ian music, wrapped into the Spirit of Aloha makes the Talk Story film fes­ti­val a pre­miere event on the beau­ti­ful Kohala Coast of Hawaii Island. Read more

Broken Hill awarded Top Jury Prize

This past week­end the 2010 Inter­na­tional Fam­ily Film Fes­ti­val (IFFF) awarded BROKEN HILL the “Director’s Gold Spirit Award” the top jury prize awarded by the Fest.

“Every year the IFFF direc­tors seek that one film that best embod­ies the spirit of inde­pen­dent fam­ily cin­ema,” said IFFF co-founder Chris Shoe­maker. “This year we’re please to announce the Spirit Award goes to the sen­sa­tional film BROKEN HILL”.

The Award was pre­sented dur­ing a gala held at Raleigh Stu­dios in Hol­ly­wood, Cal­i­for­nia. “We are so hon­ored by this recog­ni­tion from the IFFF,” said BROKEN HILL’S Chris Wyatt as he accepted the award. “Inde­pen­dent fam­ily film is so for­tu­nate to have a plat­form like the IFFF to sup­port this kind of filmmaking.”

The award fol­lows on the heels of a suc­cess­ful fes­ti­val screen­ing in which audi­ences mem­bers enthu­si­as­ti­cally mobbed BROKEN HILL cast/crew guests Alexa Vega, Sean Covel, and Christo­pher Brady with questions.

“It was very grat­i­fy­ing,” says Covel. “Usu­ally at fes­ti­vals maybe 60% or 70% of the audi­ence stays for the after-film Q&A ses­sions. At IFFF 100% of the audi­ence stayed– Every sin­gle one, with­out excep­tion! It was almost overwhelming!”

Con­grat­u­la­tions again to all the team and sup­port­ers of Bro­ken Hill The Movie.

Update on Australian Release

We have been receiv­ing numer­ous queries regard­ing the release of Bro­ken Hill in Aus­tralia so we wanted to give you an offi­cial update on the process Bro­ken Hill is tak­ing before it gets a major release.

Bro­ken Hill had its World Pre­miere in Mel­bourne Aus­tralia before it was taken on the inter­na­tional film fes­ti­val cir­cuit and our own test screen­ing cir­cuit. In the process it has won many awards and set the scene for a suc­cess­ful national and inter­na­tional release.

The nor­mal ges­ta­tion period for a film is 2 – 3 years. The Aus­tralian film “Shine’, which did so well at the Acad­emy Awards a num­ber of years ago took around five years from devel­op­ment to release. So the Bro­ken Hill expe­ri­ence is noth­ing unusual. Less than 1% of the peo­ple we expect to see Bro­ken Hill in the­atres have been exposed to it so far. The major release sched­ules are yet to come.

The ten­ta­tive release date for Aus­tralia is May 9, 2010. That may seem far off to some. How­ever, we are mak­ing sure that the release of Bro­ken Hill in Aus­tralia is a sig­nif­i­cant occur­rence. We believe the wait will have been worth it.

Thanks for being so inter­ested. If you didn’t care when or if it ran we would be more concerned.

New screenings announced for March

Bro­ken Hill has been accepted into two more film fes­ti­vals screen­ing in March.

THE INTERNATIONAL FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL
The Inter­na­tional Fam­ily Film Fes­ti­val unites film­mak­ers and audi­ences from around the globe in one heart, one mind, one world, through its fun­da­men­tal respect for human­ity and the affir­ma­tive val­ues of life as told through films that share the uni­ver­sal expe­ri­ences that con­nect us all. Cel­e­brat­ing its 15th year, the 2010 Inter­na­tional Fam­ily Film Fes­ti­val will be held at Raleigh Stu­dios in the heart of Hol­ly­wood, 5300 Mel­rose Avenue, March 11 — March 14.  This year’s theme is Fam­ily Sto­ries are Time­less . Screen­ing times will be posted when con­firmed.

TIBURON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The Tiburon Inter­na­tional Film Fes­ti­val (TIFF) is an annual event, which seeks to pro­vide a greater under­stand­ing of the world and its many cul­tures through the artis­tic medium of film, and through the top qual­ity films from around the world. TIFF wishes to enhance tol­er­ance between peo­ple of all back­grounds. Its goal is one of cul­tural enrich­ment and height­ened cul­tural aware­ness, and to cre­ate a plat­form for the inde­pen­dent film­mak­ers to express their tal­ent and vision from any nation. TIFF strongly believes in its motto: “Under­stand­ing the World through Film”®. TIFF runs from Mar 18 – 26. Screen­ing times will be posted when confirmed

Walker School Screening

The Walker School Alumni Asso­ci­a­tion was thrilled to be able to host the Atlanta-area pre­miere of Bro­ken Hill. Alexa Vega, Chris Wyatt and Sean Covel spent some time in Mari­etta with stu­dents on cam­pus about their expe­ri­ences in the film industry.

Ham­ming it up in Atlanta

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Accolade Film Festival

Bro­ken Hill recently won awards at The Acco­lade Film Awards. Enter­ing its sev­enth year, The Acco­lade is an inter­na­tional, non-traditional, vir­tual venue. Awards go to those film­mak­ers who pro­duce fresh, stand­out enter­tain­ment, ani­ma­tion and com­pelling doc­u­men­taries. The Acco­lade is a show­case for cin­e­matic gems and unique voices. Read more

Broken Hill in 2010

The new year brings very excit­ing news for Bro­ken Hill. Namely its release in Aus­tralia, but more of that later. Read more