Gilmer native David Kitchens, owner and 20-year veteran of California-based audio company Juniper Post, has teamed up with acclaimed cinematographer and director, Thomas L. Callaway and created a film called Broke Sky. Broke Sky has won many awards at film festivals over the last two years, and is now airing on the Independent Film Channel as Video on Demand.

IFC Films has picked up exclusive distribution rights to the neo-noir. The film premiered on Feb. 24, and will be available thru April 26.

Broke Sky stars Will Wallace (The New World), Joe Unger (Escape from New York), Bruce Glover (Chinatown), Duane Whitaker (Pulp Fiction), and Barbara Chisholm (Fast Food Nation).

Broke Sky is the directorial debut of Thomas L. Callaway, celebrated cinematographer of more than 80 feature films.

Broke Sky is a noir comedy set deep in the heart of Texas during the hottest summer on record. Bucky Click and Earl Boggs are two small-town best friends who work for the county in the carcass removal division, keeping the roads free of road kill.

Against a backdrop of dark comedy emerge even darker secrets, murder and suspense.

The film has garnered rave reviews from the nation’s critics:

Variety: “An exceptional example of American regional indie filmmaking, audaciously shifts gears into a powerful noir that one ups John Dahl.”

Austin Chronicle: “Well-composed imagery and precise camera angles...strong performances lubricate the film’s tonal shifts.”

LA Weekly: “…moves from glint-eyed classicism to macabrely funny neo-noir... has energetic direction and game lead performances.”

Other recent projects for Kitchens and his company Juniper Post include a dark drama entitled The Vicious Kind, currently nominated for two Independent Spirit awards for Best Screenplay and Best Male Lead; Black Dynamite, a hilarious comedy that pokes fun at 1970s blaxploitation films, now available on DVD, Blu-Ray and iTunes from Sony Pictures; Gentlemen Broncos from Fox Searchlight, written and directed by Jared Hess of Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre; The Killing Room, an intense thriller starring Timothy Hutton and Nick Cannon, which was one of the most popular films at the Sundance Film Festival; and Yesterday was a Lie, winner of over 20 film festivals and official selection of over 38 festivals, coming to DVD on March 23, 2010.

Currently Kitchens is working on Game of Death, starring Wesley Snipes; Highland Park, starring Parker Posey, Billy Burke, John Carroll Lynch and Danny Glover; The Gun, starring 50 Cent and Val Kilmer. This summer he is slated to supervise the sound for the upcoming A&E/History Channel series, The Squad.

Following The Squad are two more series, Iced and The Mission.

Located in Burbank, Calif., Juniper Post has five Dolby-certified mixing stages andprovides audio post-production services for feature films, television and other media.