I can finally announce that my Camino movie, The Way, My Way, is coming to cinemas in the US and Canada.

It opens wide on March 7th.

The film will be distributed in the US by Outsider Pictures, and in Canada by A-Z Films. The film will play in every city or town that has a chapter of the American Pilgrims on the Camino.

Jennifer and I will be doing 7 weeks solid of special Q&A screenings throughout the US and Canada, starting in Phoenix / Scottsdale on January 31st. We’ll be joined halfway through this Q&A tour by Camino legend Johnnie Walker.

The film will have its official premiere in Los Angeles on March 7th. Johnnie Walker, Jennifer and I will do a Q&A after the screening.

The Way, My Way was released theatrically in May in Australia and New Zealand, and was described by many film pundits as “the surprise hit of the year.” It took nearly $2.5m at the Australian and New Zealand Box Office, making it the 4th highest grossing Australian film of the year, behind Mad Max Furiosa, Force of Nature (The Dry 2) and Runt.

The film ran in some cinemas for 20 weeks.

It took us some time to find exactly the right distributors for the US and Canada, but we believe that Paul Hudson, head of Outsider Pictures and Antoine Zeind at A-Z, will nurture the film and handle it with the kind of handcrafted boutique approach that Marc Wooldridge, head of Maslow Entertainment, used so successfully in Australia and New Zealand.

Marc, as an Executive Producer of the film, will be actively overseeing the release.

Please find below the itinerary for the Q&A tour. This represents a minimum of 47 screenings in 50 cities in 53 days. It’s a brutal schedule, to be sure – but Jennifer and I are up for it! We’re so looking forward to meeting our longstanding social media friends in the flesh! And making new friends amongst the North American audiences.

We’ll be joined by Johnnie Walker in late February, and he’ll accompany us doing Q&A screenings in New York, Canada, Washington state, Oregon, and California.

When you go through this itinerary below you might be disappointed that we won’t be coming to your neck of the woods – but we simply can’t go everywhere – and be assured that the film will most probably be released in a cinema near you regardless.

Oh, and just to say – when tickets go on sale for these Q&A screenings, don’t dawdle. If you want to see the movie, get your tickets fast. Because if the response is anything like it was in Australia, sessions will sell out quickly. This isn’t some hokey marketing ploy, I’m serious. We literally had people fighting and yelling and screaming in the foyer of the cinema at a few screenings demanding tickets to shows that had sold-out weeks in advance. It was bizarre!

So here’s the itinerary. Like I say, it’s full on! It might change closer to the time, but this is what we’re working to right now.

Hope to see you at a screening!