HANSON Documentary 'Strong Enough To Break' Selected for 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival(R)

HANSON Documentary 'Strong Enough To Break' Selected for 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival(R)

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Indie artists HANSON will premiere their documentary STRONG ENOUGH TO BREAK at the prestigious 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival(R) presented by STARZ(R) at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood in October. With hundreds of entries the Hollywood Film Festival has become a pre-cursor to the Oscars with 42 Oscar nominations and 9 Oscars awarded to films showcased at the festival in the past three years. HANSON have been Grammy nominees, multi-platinum chart-toppers and Carnegie Hall headliners, but for the brothers and band-mates, acceptance into the Hollywood Film Festival out of hundreds of entries is a tremendous accolade as it chronicles the band's dramatic choice to leave a major record label to launch their own independent company.

The documentary, a film by director Ashley Greyson, looks at HANSON and their three year struggle with their record label, Island/DefJam, from an insider perspective rarely seen before. What started out as a story about HANSON, turned into a bigger commentary on the state of the music business.

With the music industry in the aftermath of corporate mergers, deregulated radio, and an uncertain future, HANSON is faced with the challenge of making a new album while dealing with an endless array of obstacles. Throughout the forty month ordeal, they must learn to cope with an insatiable record label executive, incompatible producers and ultimately with each other. In this climate, the band discovers if they can strike the balance between art, commerce and independence. A trailer for the documentary can be viewed at www.strongenoughtobreak.com.

"Strong Enough To Break began as in depth story of one band's inner workings. It became an example of many artists' struggle to balance the interests of today's consolidated music companies and the passion for their art and its future."

The 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival(R) takes place from October 18 to 23 at ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.

After entering the Billboard Independent chart at #1 in April 2004 with Underneath, HANSON is currently in the studio working on their second release on their own label 3CG Records. The band was recently praised by New York's Village Voice as "secretly the finest straight up rock band in America."

For more about HANSON go to www.hanson.net. For more about the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival(R) go to www.hollywoodawards.com.

Source: HANSON

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