Broke*

Broke is a featurelength documentary film written and directed by Will Gray. The film is an autobiographical account of Grays attempt to break into the music business. Broke features appearances by Kelly Clarkson, Seth Godin, John Legend, Buddy Miller, Isaac Slade of The Fray, and Don Was.

Despite these auspicious beginnings, frustrating meetings with a New York record executive fail to produce an acceptable deal, so Gray decides to set out on his own as an independent artist. The film follows his struggles to establish a fanbase, manage bookings and cancellations, and all of the other exhilarations and frustrations of independent music making. Broke features interviews with recording industry insiders about new paradigms for the music business.Newsday called Broke a pretty accurate, sometimes wrenching, portrayal of what upandcoming artists go through to advance their career. It was selected for presentation at the PhilFM Philadelphia Film and Music Festival, and at the Nashville Film Festival, where it was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Most Original Vision in the Gibson Music FilmsMusic City Competition. ........

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