Broken Orchestra
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Broken Orchestra |
| Country of production | Canada , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Charlie Tyrell |
| script | Josef Beeby, Charlie Tyrell |
| production | Julie Baldassi, Jane Garrah |
| music | Colin Sigor, David Lang |
| camera | Chet Tilokani |
| cut | Michael Barker |
Broken Orchestra is a short film directed by Charlie Tyrell about the consequences of the financial cuts in public schools in Philadelphia.
content
An opening credits show that between 2007 and 2017, support for art grants in Philadelphia public schools was cut from $ 1.3 million to $ 50,000. Philadelphia has a great music and jazz history that is at risk after these cuts.
In the hallways and stairwells, and in the classrooms and rooms of teachers in a school, there are televisions in which various people, teachers, musicians and music lovers, watch videos about the importance of music and the importance of learning to play instruments in general and for the city in particular, but also about the meaning for themselves and for the community. The camera also pays a visit to the school's sports hall, where a ton of instruments are set up.
Among the people who have their say in the film are the project manager Anna Drozdowski, the composer David Lang, who also wrote the film music, the cellist Liz Filios, the trombonist Dan Blacksberg, the flutist Rosylin McGee and the violinist Joseph Conyers. Frank Machos, the music educator of the School District of Philadelphia, and Robert Blackson, the initiator of the “Symphony for a Broken Orchestra” project, have their say. The project was supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage in Philadelphia.
production
Directed by Charlie Tyrell , who wrote the script together with Josef Beeby.
The film was shown for the first time in the USA in June 2019. In October 2019 he was presented at the Philadelphia Film Festival, in January 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 . After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , where the film was to be shown in March 2020, the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp made the film available free of charge on a joint online platform for 30 days. After that, the makers of the film decided to let it run there for two more years with an SVOD license . In addition, Broken Orchestra is one of the films that were shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival and made available virtually by Amazon through a cooperation with Amazon Prime Video as part of the “SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection”. The film was available for free in the United States for ten days in front of the Prime Video paywall. It will be shown at AFI DOCS in June 2020 .
Awards
Cleveland International Film Festival 2020
- Received the Tom and Ginny Knoll Family Award
Florida Film Festival 2020
- Awarded the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short Film
Philadelphia Film Festival 2019
- Best Short Film Awarded the Jury Award ( Charlie Tyrell )
- Nomination for Best Short Documentary (Charlie Tyrell)
South by Southwest Film Festival 2020
- Nomination for the Grand Jury Award - Documentary Short (Charlie Tyrell)
Web links
- Broken Orchestra in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Broken Orchestra in the program of the South by Southwest Film Festival (English)
- Information page on the project "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra" (English)
- Broken Orchestra by Oscilloscope Laboratories / Mailchimp (Video)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Kim Lyons: Amazon will feature SXSW films in a virtual film festival on Prime Video. In: theverge.com, April 2, 2020.
- ↑ Tatiana Siegel: SXSW-Amazon Virtual Fest Sets Lineup for April 27 Launch. In: The Hollywood Reporter, April 21, 2020.
- ↑ https://www.afi.com/press/the-american-film-institute-announces-full-slate-of-films-for-afi-docs-2020-supported-by-presenting-sponsor-att/
- ↑ https://www.clevelandfilm.org/festival/festival-guide/winners
- ^ The 29th Florida Film Festival announces Grand Jury and Audience Award Winners. In: floridafilmfestival.com. Accessed on August 27, 2020 (PDF; 170 KB)