In September 2025, after performing at The Town Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Bruce Dickinson joined with directors Leo Liberti and Antoine de Montremy, to shoot an epic new film to accompany his re-working of the classic track ‘Tears Of The Dragon’, which features on last year’s re-imagined album More Balls To Picasso originally released in 1994.
Taking over a disused brewery in São Paulo with a full film crew, Bruce and his House Band of Hell, were accompanied by the Almai orchestra, conducted by Antonio Teoli, to create a dramatic video for the beloved song. Teoli and the orchestra featured in the studio re-recording of the track, adding a whole new dimension to the atmospheric ballad.
Their performance in the video, alongside Bruce and Brazilian ballet dancer Renata Bardazi, has created a striking and emotionally charged film that has already been shown at a number of film festivals around the world, resulting in prestigious nominations and awards. It has now been released and is available to watch HERE.
Bruce comments, “When we reimagined the whole More Balls To Picasso album we always wanted to do an orchestral version of ‘Tears Of The Dragon’. Antonio Teoli scored it and we recorded it, then we called up the film-maker Leo Liberti who previously shot a load of live stuff for me in Brazil that was fabulous. We found this amazing location, an enormous old school brewery that was almost like a renaissance building, and we made up the orchestra so they looked slightly zombified. All the HBOH band members are in the video and I gave them all instruments to play. The whole thing was brilliant madness. Leo also came up with the idea of having a ballet dancer interpreting the song, and she was amazing, poetic, and that adds an incredible extra-emotional dimension to the video.”
The new video has already won Best Music Video at a host of international Film Festivals, with further official nominations awaiting results. They are:
Tears Of The Dragon video
2026 Awards:
- Los Angeles Film Festival IAF – Best Music Video
- Los Angeles Film Awards – Best Music Video
- New York International Film Awards – Best Music Video
- Eastern Europe Film Festival – Best Music Video
- Sweden Luleå International Film Festival – Best Music Video
- World Premiere Films Awards – Best Music Video / Best Editing
- Asian Independent Film Festival – Best Music Video
- Berlin Music Video Awards – Bronze
2026 Nominations:
- Cannes Film Awards
- Cannes World Film Festival
- International Sound & Film Festival
- Rome Prisma Film Awards
- Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival
- Filmmaker Sessions
- New York Short Cinema Awards
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