Finally, we have a place where you can go to find showtimes and buy tickets for the Q&A tour – and when the film opens in general release on March 7th, you can use this link to find your nearest cinema too –
Go to the website’s home page – find the SHOWTIMES tab on the menu bar, click on that, choose your country, search your zip code, and there it is!
Sorry it’s taken so long – it’s a difficult and time consuming process getting commitments from exhibitors to play a small Australian movie about a stubborn man walking across Spain!
Yes, but is it Tuesday or is it Monday? This Q&A tour is becoming a bit of a blur. Here are the screenings so far:
Phoenix – SELL OUT
Sedona x 2 screenings – both SELL OUTS
Flagstaff – SELL OUT
Albuquerque – 95% full
Santa Fe – SELL OUT
Denver – SELL OUT
Flat Iron Crossing – SELL OUT
Dallas – 95% full
Austin – SELL OUT
San Antonio – SELL OUT
Houston – SELL OUT
Orlando – 90% full
Miami Nth – 90% full
Miami Sth – SELL OUT
So across 15 screenings in 17 days so far we’ve had 11 sell outs, and those that didn’t sell out had only the front two rows close to the screen left unsold. The screening tonight in Miami’s Coral Gables Art Cinema sold out the first day tickets went on sale. It was a 141 seat cinema, but they put in extra chairs to cater for the overflow, making it 150 seats in all.
We flew from Australia to Phoenix (8,809 miles), and have taken 2 internal flights totalling 1800 miles. Most of our travel though has been by car – with me driving…
In 17 days I’ve driven 1875 miles, or 3,017 kms through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Texas and Florida.
How are we holding up?
Overall, pretty darn well. There have been a few times in the past 17 days when we’ve felt like we’ve been newly exhumed – but other than that we’re having a huge amount of fun, meeting some truly remarkable and wonderful people, making new friends and catching up with old friends – but the thing that keeps us buoyed is the audiences’ response to the film.
It’s been humbling – and has far exceeded our expectations.
Here is an updated list of screenings on our US and Canada Q&A Tour, as of Feb 15.
Please remember that the film opens in general release on March 7, so even though your town or city may not be on this list, the film becomes available in cinemas across the US and Canada on March 7.
Camino legend Johnnie Walker will be joining us on the tour – arriving into New York on Feb 27 and doing Q&As after screenings with us right the way through to March 23rd.
Also please note that this is not going to be available on Netflix or any other streamer in the foreseeable future. Sorry. But if you want to see this movie you’ll have to go see it in a cinema. But if I can humbly say: it’s worth it! The film is a big screen experience. It really puts you on the Camino.
So here’s the list. There’s still a lot of gaps, but we’re filling these as fast as we can –
Very soon I’ll be publishing a new book – it’s called:
The Way, My Way – Posts from a BLOG that became a BOOK that became a FILM.
Catchy title huh?
It’s a compilation of all the posts I wrote on my blog leading up to, during, and after my first Camino, and posts from my second Camino, the Portuguese Camino.
It has an incredible amount of detail about the two walks, including some wonderful photos. It includes multiple “audits,” analysis and breakdowns of gear, personal insights, what I did right, what I did wrong, etc.
Here’s the front cover – it’ll be up on Amazon in a week or so. I’ll let you know when it’s available –
The Q&A tour that Jennifer and I are currently doing is going surprisingly well –
10th Feb – Dallas. 90% sold out. (It will sell out by the screening date.)
11th Feb – Austin – SOLD OUT.
12th Feb – San Antonio – SOLD OUT
13th Feb – Houston – SOLD OUT.
Jennifer and I fly into Dallas on Sunday the 9th and we’ve been invited to a Super Bowl party.
How cool is that?
Today driving through from Santa Fe to Pueblo on our way to a screening in Denver tomorrow night (93% sold out so far) – we drove through some magnificent country in Colorado.
We had lunch at Del’s Diner. It was such a wonderful place – and my Bacon Cheeseburger (hold the cheese, please) was delicious.
Yesterday at the screening in Santa Fe I met up with a Facebook friend who many years ago contacted me, after having read my book, asking to buy a particular photograph featured in the book.
I said I wouldn’t sell it to him – I gave it to him – and a friendship developed from that time on. We met for the first time yesterday at the screening. His name is Troy Buckleiter. He runs a very prominent art gallery in Santa Fe – and our friendship took a quantum leap yesterday.
Here is an updated Q&A Schedule. The back end of the tour, Northern California, is not entirely set yet – but what’s listed below is as we know it at the moment.
In the next day or two I’ll post the various links to tickets.
Thank you to everyone who has come out and supported the film so far. The response really has been quite amazing. Sellout screenings all over…
Well, I’m a-standin’ on a corner in Winslow, Arizona Such a fine sight to see It’s a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin’ down to take a look at me
Come on, baby, don’t say maybe I gotta know if your sweet love is gonna save me We may lose and we may win Though we will never be here again So open up, I’m climbin’ in So take it easy…
The iconic song, written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Fry – Take it Easy – the song more commonly known as sung by The Eagles.
I stood on that corner today –
Jennifer and I stopped in Winslow on our way from Flagstaff through to Albuquerque tomorrow, and a screening tomorrow night.
Had lunch at La Posada – an historic hotel in Winslow –
And then stayed overnight at the (again, historic) El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, a town which has been the base for a lot of classic westerns.
Tomorrow we drive from Flagstaff Arizona into New Mexico, and screenings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Arizona could not have gone better.
We had four screenings – one in Phoenix, two in Sedona and one in Flagstaff. All were sold out. Not only were they sold out, the theatre managers had to turn people away.
In Sedona, the theatre manager put ten extra folding seats into the cinema in each session to try and cater for the demand, and even then there were people on the wait list who missed out.
And the response in every screening so far has been the same – overwhelmingly positive.
Jennifer and I have hit the ground running. We’ve hardly had any spare time – what with driving from town to town, checking into a new hotel each day, prepping for the screenings, doing the Q&As, chatting to wonderful new friends and thanking those that are helping make these screenings a success – it’s been full on!
But in amongst it all we’re managing to grab moments of real joy.
Having fried catfish at Famous Dave’s in Peoria, Phoenix.
Driving through the desert – (Jennifer took this photo below – note the expansive headroom…)
Catching up with dear friends such as Diane Sova –
And the surprise reunion with celebrated filmmakers (Love Heals) Dana Croschere and Krisanna Sexton –
And capturing moments of real Americana –
Tomorrow’s a day off. We’re driving through to Albuquerque but stopping halfway at Gallup, an historic town that’s been the location for several famous movies.
The trick to us getting through this demanding schedule is to grab these joyful moments when we can, and savour them –
Later I’lll put up a post with links to tickets at the various Q&A screenings we’re attending.
Today Jennifer and I leave our home in Mudgee and begin a journey that will most probably not have us home again for four months.
Countries that we will visit are:
United States (45 cities)
Canada (3 cities)
Germany (10 cities approx)
Austria
Switzerland
Denmark
Norway
United Kingdom (15 cities approx)
Ireland (3-5 cities approx)
back to Canada
Malta
Whew. It makes my head spin just writing it down.
We are of course doing a roadshow of The Way, My Way. We have our first screening in Phoenix this Friday, and already it’s all but sold out.
I’ll be blogging here, if not every day then near as I can – and for updates on screenings etc check in here.
I’ll also be using a trip-tracker app called Polarsteps. If you want to follow our journey just download the app and search my name.
How do Jennifer and I feel about it?
We’re excited. Excited to meet new people and renew old friendships. We’re excited to see new places – like Denmark & Norway – and Malta especially! And we’re excited to be bringing the film to a wider audience.
Really, how privileged are we?
I can’t quite believe my life has taken this turn – and it all started by my walking the Camino in 2013.
Hey y’all! (See how I’m getting into the US lingo!)
We have some details confirmed on cinemas and ticketing links for our North American tour. It’s by no means complete at this stage, but our distributors Outsider Pictures and Paul Hudson are doing their best to get this sorted as quickly as possible.
Jennifer and I will be at all these screenings, answering questions after the film – and we’ll be joined by Camino legend Johnnie Walker from Feb 28th onwards, at our screenings in New York then across Canada and down the west coast of the US.
So here’s what’s confirmed so far. I’ll update this as more cinemas come online:
Obviously there are a lot of cinemas yet to be locked in, but this is what’s confirmed so far. Please show the exhibitors that there’s demand for this film and buy your tickets now. That way, we have a chance of this film having a life in North America!
PGS - The Way 
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