"Bruno's Blues" premieres as prelude to Vancouver International Jazz Festival

Music mockumentary film opens prior to top Canadian jazz fests

VANCOUVER, May 23, 2012 /CNW/ - "Bruno's Blues" premieres in Vancouver June 1, 2012 at the Fifth Avenue Cinemas. The film, with an indie cult and jazz audience appeal, opens in Late Night Weekend Madness screenings from June 1 - 30 to coincide with the upcoming Vancouver International Jazz Festival.

Set and filmed in Vancouver, the locally produced feature length music mockumentary, about the life of Bruno Hubert, a talented but irresponsible jazz pianist with its tragic and comedic turns, also showcases such acclaimed jazz artists as Juno award winner Brad Turner, Mike Allen, Bill Campbell and Denzal Sinclaire.

Inspired by the life of talented Canadian Jazz pianist Hubert, "Brunoʼs Blues" is a unique hybrid, combining elements of music, documentary with comedic and dramatic performances in a quirky, offbeat mockumentary style. In addition to the virtuoso live music performances some of the musicians also play fictitious characters while Hubert dramatizes his own eccentric life.

"It's like nothing you've ever seen before," says the film's creator Michael Simard of Bruno's Blues Productions Inc. who employed an unusual variety of film techniques to create the 80-minute film of shameless fun and sizzling jazz. "Bruno is the underdog that the audience can laugh at but also root for, as he goes through various challenges in the real world he has largely managed to ignore."

Simard says the movie that Bruno inspired has much in common with the unique musician. "I'm proud of the film in that it is original and you can't compare it to anything else - it doesn't fit into some cookie cutter mould. All these key Canadian artists came together and volunteered to support their good friend and fellow musician. We all did it for love and passion for jazz."

An accomplished photographer, artist and successful business entrepreneur MICHAEL SIMARD conceived, produced, wrote and directed "Bruno's Blues," his first feature length film.

Following the film's theatrical launch in Vancouver, "Bruno's Blues" will open during the Toronto Jazz Festival and during the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal.

Who:	Jazz fans, indie cult film lovers
What:	Bruno's Blues Premiere
When:	June 1, 2012, 11:30 pm
Where:	Fifth Avenue Cinemas - 2110 Burrard St.

For full press kit and trailer go to:  http://www.brunosblues.com

 

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