Raindance becomes 'Brother's first U.K. Selection

The 14th Annual Raindance Film Festival has selected Brother to screen. Amongst the Jury Panel are Lou Reed, Dame Judi Dench and Matthew Libatique (DoP Requiem for a Dream).

In other news - the fantastic UK short film 'Devilwood' has been selected. Devilwood is written and directed by Sacha Bennett who has been a great friend of mine for many years. In fact, the week before I left for Australia 10 years ago we were shooting one of his short films. Incredible odds that we have film selected to screen together this many years later at opposite ends of the globe.

Good luck to both films in their screenings!

Full update - Inc. Best Actor Award for Jai Koutrae!

Sorry it's been a while... but a lot has happened in the last lot of months.

The festival selections hev been coming thick and fast with Tabor (croatia), Luciana (Italy), Rhode Island Int. Film Festival, Los Angeles Int. Short Film Festival all selecting 'Brother' to screen.

The biggest news in the last few months has been that actor Jai Koutrae (Brother), was awarded the Best Actor award at the Luciana Film Festival in Italy!

This was an amazing achievement as the jury were all Italian film industry representatives, and would have viewed the film as a foreign entrant. Congratulations to Jai on his thoroughly deserved accolade for an amazing performance from the whole crew...

'Brother' Director signed to U.S. agency Brant Rose

'Brother' Director Galvin Scott Davis has been signed to exclusive U.S. literary and directors agency - The Brant Rose Agency in Hollywood.

They will represent Galvin in the U.S. for Directing and Writing and their client include Bragi Schut, creator and writer of Threshold, and Blake Masters, creator of 'Brotherhood' TV series..

And... Newport International Film Festival

America is still treating us well!! Now, Newport Interantional FIlm Festival have selected 'Brother' as they received nearly 750 film submissions, making this the most competitive year in their history.

The festival director said, "We feel strongly that your film is amongst the very best that is out there, and would be honored to include it in our Short Film Competition section."

The festival runs from Tuesday, June 6 – Sunday, June 11 in the beautiful seaside resort town of Newport, Rhode Island (which is only 3 hours from New York City and 1 1/2 hours from Boston). Newport is a truly stunning place to be in June. It is a quaint New England town surrounded by pristine beaches, harbors and cliff walks, and filled with amazing architecture, great restaurants and shopping.

Seattle International Film Festival welcomes 'Brother'

One of the largest festivals in the U.S. - Seattlel has selected brother for the 32nd Seattle International Film Festival (May 25 to June 18, 2006).

SIFF is the largest and most highly attended film festival in the United States with 175,000 attendees expected in 2006.  SIFF screens a wide selection of the best new international features and documentaries over the 25-day festival, presenting more than 300 films from over 50 countries. With extensive local, national and international media coverage, the Festival has
emerged as one of the country's most accessible and highly publicized film events.

'Brother' WINS 2 awards at Beverly Hills Film Festival!!!

An incredible month - following on from the succes at Silver Lake - Brother went on to win 2 awards at the prestigious Beverly Hills Film Festival in Hollywood...

The awards ceremony were held at the Beverly Hills Hotel with the full red carpet treatment. In a packed ballroom, 'Brother' was first awarded 'Best Editing'. This category included feature films, a huge compliment for Editor Hayley Lake.

The film was then awarded 'Best Short Film' in the Jury prizes - an incredible achievement as the majority of short films were homegrown american films. 'Brother' was one of only 2 films to win more than one award.

The Judging panel consisted of the Chairman of Lions Gate Films, Terminator producer John Daly, Emmy Award winning journalist Laura Lucio.

Brother WINS Silver Lake Film Festival!!!

After successfully screening at Cinequest and Phoenix... 'Brother' screened to well attended audiences at the Silver Lake Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Held at the Arclight Cinema complex, 'Brother' was awarded 'Best Short Film - Foreign' at the festival against a strong competition of foreign shorts that were previous festival winners. The judging panel included renowned indie filmmaker Allison Anders.

Silver Lake Film festival invites 'Brother' to screen!!!

O.K. - we've sampled it, and checked it three times... there is DEFINITELY something in the water...

The american festivals seem to be 'getting' Brother - and Silver Lake Film Festival have now selected 'Brother' in competition.

In its recent celebrated Bestof L.A. issue, L.A. Weekly noted that Los Angeles can now boast a film festival almost every week. "L.A. is in the midst of a film festival boom. And the competition has made almost everyone step up to the plate." Among the scores of worthy contenders. Silver Lake Film Festival was selected to be in the city's Top Five.

Congrats to all involved AGAIN!!

Beverly Hills Film festival selects 'Brother'

The Beverly Hills Film Festival has selected 'Brother' to screen in April!

Festival Director Nino Simone called the Protein office to let us know that he hand-picked the film himself. "Great story, great acting, wonderful cinematography and music... we are proud to invite you to screen...", he said.

Out of over 1,000 submissions, 20 films were chosen...

February is a great month for festival phonecalls!!!!

'Brother' Selected for Phoenix Film Festival 2006

Great news - our 2nd U.S. festival has selected us for screening.

'Brother' has been chosen in the World Cinema Short Films section in the 2006 Phoenix Film Festival as one of only 7 films to be selected worldwide.

We are pretty chuffed as this is so close to the Cinequest Screening which means that we will get some good coverage in the U.S. throughout March.

Congrats once again to everyone for contributing to this...