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.