Broken Social Scene, announce their forthcoming new documentary, It’s All Gonna Break, directed by dear friend and filmmaker Stephen Chung. The film focuses on the intimate, never before seen, behind-the-scenes footage documenting the creation of the indie collective, Featuring every member of the band – yes, every member of the band – who helped the group from the beer-soaked bars of Toronto to stadium stages across the globe. The film will be premiering on October 16th at the Woodstock Film Festival. Further festival appearances will be announced in the coming weeks.

Stephen Chung shares how he captured the very beginnings of this loose collective of artists, musicians, friends and lovers, and ended up documenting the creation of Broken Social Scene’s 2002’s groundbreaking sophomore album, You Forgot It In People.Following the emergence of BSS, music fans around the world wanted to know who the next great band out of Canada was going to be, essentially putting Toronto and Montreal on the map as important musical hubs the way that cities like Omaha, Chicago, and Portland had been prior. Birthing other bands, solo projects, side projects, and more, Broken Social became the driving force behind a massive wave of talent whose influence continues to reverberate through indie rock today.

It’s All Gonna Break is also a story of Chung, himself a young artist in Toronto in the early 2000’s, a camera permanently in his hand, filming his friends doing what they loved to do – creating music, hanging out, finding the party, and finding each other. His friends, it turned out, coalesced into Broken Social Scene. Behind the lens of his camera, Chung grabbed this special moment in time, showing the reality of a group of young creatives navigating friendships, relationships, business and art, then learning how to deal with success.

In 2007, Chung wanted to make a film about it all, but the band said no to the rough cut. It was not the right time and not the right film. Almost 20 years later, the time is now. It’s All Gonna Break is a journey of how art is made, how it’s protected, how it impacts people all over the globe, how relationships change…and how we all have to grow up, eventually.

With modern day interviews with Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Feist, Emily Haines, Amy Milan, Charles Spearin, Andrew Whiteman, Justin Peroff, John Crossingham, Evan Cranley, James Shaw, Jeffrey Remedios and David Newfeld, we look back 20 years ago to when it all began, and how they all remember it now.

IT’S ALL GONNA BREAK CREDITS:

Director: Stephen Chung
Featuring: Broken Social Scene
Producer: Ann Shin / Diana Warmé
Executive Producer:
Stephen Chung /Ann Shin / Andrea Menzies / Hannah Donegan
Writer: Andrea Menzies
Editor: Andrew Beach / Graham Withers
Cinematographer: Stephen Chung
Production Coordinator: Mariam Bastani
Production Company: Fathom Films