Film + Screen · Original IP
Broken Saints
Case study
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Case study
- Project type
- Writing · Animation · Direction · Branding
- Dates
- 2001–2008
- Location
- Vancouver, Canada
The project
Brooke created, wrote, produced, and directed this early long-form motion-comic epic. Broken Saints reached six million web visitors and received a premium four-disc global release through 20th Century Fox Home Video.
Recognition
The series received a Sundance Film Festival audience award, multiple Telefilm Canada grants, Best in Show at the Horizon Interactive Awards, Best Series at Flash Forward, and Producer of the Year at the Canadian New Media Awards.
What the critics saw
Entertainment Weekly called it eye-popping, innovative, and mesmerizing. NPR described it as impressionistic, moody, and lyrical. Wired compared its collision of technology, conspiracy, and spirituality to Philip K. Dick meeting The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
