FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HULU PICKS UP CONTROVERSIAL CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY
 
“Cracked Not Broken” set for HULU feature on May 14, 2009
 
TORONTO (May 13, 2009): Controversial Canadian documentary film, Cracked Not Broken, which was featured in HBO’s award winning Addiction Project, has been acquired for broadcast by US premium content website Hulu (www.Hulu.com) and will be one of the featured films on the site tomorrow, May 14, 2009.
 
Cracked Not Broken, (www.crackednotbroken.com) by filmmaker Paul Perrier and Executive Producer Tom Powers, is a co-production of Open Door and Blatant Exposure Inc. This real-time documentary opens a disturbing window into the life of Lisa, a 37-year-old crack addict and estranged mother who prostitutes herself to fuel her costly drug habit. Although she grew up in an upper class family in Rosedale, a privileged Toronto neighbourhood, went to the right private schools and had the right friends, something went terribly wrong. Shot almost entirely in her Toronto hotel room, the film captures a highly intelligent, vivacious, articulate and hyperactive woman juggling a cell phone and drug paraphernalia with equal dexterity while talking with incredible frankness to Perrier about the struggles of being ‘in the game’ and her quest for any kind of redemption.  The film and its subject gained international prominence after being featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and has been sold and screened around the world. It is currently being broadcast in Canada on The Documentary Channel and Super Channel, in Australia on Foxtel and on Snag Films in the US (www.snagfilms.com).
 
About Hulu
Hulu is a premium online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites — all for free, anytime in the U.S. Founded in March 2007, Hulu is co-owned by NBC Universal, News Corp., Disney and Providence Equity Partners. It is operated independently with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Beijing. Hulu's mission is to help people find and enjoy the world's premium video content when, where and how they want it.
 
About Open Door (www.opendoorco.com)
Launched in 2005, Open Door is in the business of producing, distributing and investing in “Content That Matters” across all media platforms. Other films it has produced include the award winning documentaries Independent America – The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop, Black Nation and Rising From Ruins.
 
About Blatant Exposure (www.blatantexposure.ca)
Launched by filmmaker/photographer Paul Perrier in 2000, Blatant Exposure Inc. is in the business of creating and filming cutting edge documentaries. Past productions have included “Marymount Again…” broadcast on the CBC and Life Networks and “Maybe the Big Rabbit Did it?” – New York Independent Film Festival.
 
 
For more information:
Tom Powers
Open Door Co.
1 416 855 7386
tpowers@opendoorco.com