Festival Presenters at Moving Stories Film Preview

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- The consensus is growing - books on film help reach new audiences, and are an exciting way to bring readers to books. Moving Stories Film Fest proposes to do just that, and at the recent BookExpo Canada, MSFF Programmer Paul Quarrington had the opportunity to get one-on-one with the festivals presenters that will be orchestrating the short film program across the country this fall. Festival Advisor Nino Ricci and Anne Collins were there too, champions of the initiative to support authors' work on screen; as is author Susan Swan whose novel What Casanova Told Me was the very first to be adapted as for BookShorts.


Shot live at BookExpo Canada, Moving Stories Film Fest Preview event, June 15, 2008.  Paul Quarrington With Anne Green, Charlene Diehl, Hal Wake, Kelly Davis, Susan Swan, and Judith Keenan with Nino Ricci.

What it takes to get in the picture: Motorcycle gang hits BEC 2008

www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- what it takes to get into the picture -- 8 bikers, a Harley ride on the exhibit floor, a sense of humour, and a trade show full of people willing to be "convinced."

Callaghan, Quarrington, Carmody, Cohen - Word on the Street is more than a Book Bazaar

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http://www.movingstories.tv/ -- Perhaps its his self-effacing charm that has made Ben McNally a bookselling hero to publishers and customers alike. He certainly is a good-looking chap, don't you think? Visit his new store at Bay and Richmond and you'll see exactly what we mean, on both counts!

In the meantime, we've captured just a wee bit of the other activities that happen in Queen's Park Circle during The Word on The Street. It hosts all kinds of readings from luminaries such as Barry Callaghan (Between Trains); Tish Cohen (Town House); How to's seminars from the likes of Paul Quarrington on Writing Across Genres for Humber School for Writers; and Storyteller Bruce Carmody at the Children's Activity Tent. It even brings folks like Jon Pressick, Lars-Peter Bjornson (BookTelevision) and Anne Mroczkowski (CityTV) off the screen and onto the stage, hosting musical artists of the caliber of Earl La Pierre Jr, who definately got folks moving to the beat.

With thanks to all the interviewees in this third of three installments, and a special thanks to Tony Tobias for his fantastic still photographs included in the montage. (c) 2007 BookShorts.com

The Word On The Street: What it has done for Sue lately?

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http://www.movingstories.tv/ -- Sue Kenney has a great deal of faith in the goodness of people, a rare quality, and one she shares easily with the majority of those who man booths, speak in tents, give away tomes, and generally make the The Word On the Street one of the most inspiring outdoor events of Toronto's fall season. Watch this first of three vignettes we could not resist compiling, featuring the authors, publishers, booksellers and the 175,000 (or so!) bibliophiles that make this event sing.

With thanks to Joanne Smale, the organizers of the Fest, and our gracious interviewees: Sue Kenney, Author now of two memoirs with White Knight Books; Kitty Lewis of Brick Books; and Conan Tobias of Taddle Creek Press. (c) 2007 BookShorts.

SUE KENNEY, Author & Film Director, Live from CFRB Word on the Street

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www.bookshorts.com/blog -- The Word on the Street is far more than bargain books and beautiful weather, though we were lucky enough to have both. Author Sue Kenney is a wonderful case study in just how enterprising authors can become PUBLISHED authors through the rare access that the street festival provides. From the idea of a book, to actual published author, CFRB radio host Christina Chernesky knew her then and interviews her now, live from the CFRB radio booth on the Street.

Thanks to Christina, Sue and teh good folks at The Word on the Street. For more information about Sue Kenney and the upcoming screenings of her feature film, Las Peregrinas, log on to http://www.suekenney.ca/

I've Got a Home in Gloryland, the Politics of Slavery: BookShorts Video

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www.BookShorts.com - I've Got a Home in Glory Land by author Karolyn Smardz-Frost is the epic story and first entirely original biography of a fugitive slave couple since the 19th century.

BookShorts attended the event celebrating its publication at St. Lawrence Hall in Toronto. Author / Teacher / Activist AUSTIN CLARKE provided clear insight for the significant contribution Smardz Frost has made to history.

The book is the fascinating and absorbing story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn, two fugitive slaves from Kentucky who made a daring daylight escape from slavery in 1831. It is both a devastating portrait of the conditions and the politics of slavery and an inspiring account of two intrepid fugitive slaves whose flight to freedom changed US and Canadian history.

(c) BookShorts Moving Stories.TV; Book Published by Thomas Allen Publishers and available now at ChaptersIndigo.ca

BookShorts' Moving Stories Series Premieres on Rogers TV May 1

Host Paul Quarrington On The Film Set in Adapting Books to Screen

Viewers Are Invited to InsideToronto.com To Win Books and More!

Tuesday, May 1 at 8:30pm marks the premiere of BookShorts’ Moving Stories, an insightful new television series exploring the art of filmmaking on Rogers Television and launched in partnership with InsideToronto.com. The 8-episode series is hosted by Award-winning multi-talented artist of film, television, books and music Paul Quarrington, who leads viewers behind the scenes of two different BookShort films each episode, revealing tricks and tips of particular interest to film buffs and to those who aspire to make films, all in keeping with the theme of the books that are the source of inspiration for each of the films. Episodes are broadcast weekly beginning May 1 on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:30pm; Wednesdays at 4:30pm.

Just some of the book to films adaptations include Douglas Coupland’s JPod; Craig Davidson’s The Fighter; the original BookShort Susan Swan’s What Casanova Told Me and animated films for Mireille Silcoff’s Archetypes, and i-ROBOT Poetry by Jason Christie, a sci-fi comedic treat. The series also features segments on composing music for soundtracks, finding story in the video editing suite; the creative impact of exotic foreign film locations; and making movies for mobile. Each week, viewers who participate in the online games have the opportunity to win the books featured in Moving Stories. For more on this exciting interactive dimension, visit www.insidetoronto.com.

Moving Stories is a co-production of BookShorts Literacy Program and Rogers Television sponsored by Toronto Community News. Produced in Association with Canadian Heritage, Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corp., CHUM Access Media Group, Movieola-The Short Film Channel and our filmmakers, authors, and publishing partners. Producer, Judith Keenan; Director, Bert Kish; Host/Story Editor, Paul Quarrington; Editors, Chris Perez, Kerry Biskupski; Broadcast Titles & Design, Crush; Camera , Allyson Reid; Interactive, Irene Duma.

BookShorts NEWS: February 2007

BookShorts News February 2007
1. Moving Stories: Casanova, Confessions
2. BookShort Films on Chapters Indigo Live
3. JPod Theatrical World Premiere at SXSW
4. Movieola BookShort Broadcasts
5. Blog Features Neil Smith BANG CRUNCH
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1. ARMCHAIR JOURNEYS are in focus on Moving Stories TV
CLT Sunday, February 11, 8:30am, 11am, 1pm
BookTelevision Thursday, February 22, 8pm

This show focuses on the impact of location, with directors of the dramatic short What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan revealing the magic of re-creating 18th century Venice in downtown Toronto, and in the doc Confessions of a Pilgrim Sue Kenney is transformed by her trek on the Camino, which she shot entirely on location in Spain.
Moving Stories Website“ http://www.bookshorts.com/movingstories.htm
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2. Chapters Indigo Goes Live with BookShort Films
Fans and new readers alike can now find close to thirty BookShort video interviews and films -- click Author Videos and Podcasts in the Special Features, right on the Chapters Indigo home page. The webbies at Chapters have collected all the best clips, of which we are proud to say a whole bunch are from BookShorts talented screen peeps!
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3. JPod theatrical premiere at South by Southwest Film Festival
We've cracked the US film circuit with the JPod BookShort based on Douglas Coupland's novel, happily riding along with EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN, the Radke Films feature whose screenplay was penned by our favourite multi-talented geek artist. Watch the BookShorts website for more news on the SXSW JPod screening date. http://www.bookshorts.com/watch_jpod.htm
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4. Movieola-The Short Film Channel Hosts Broadcast Slate
Making their first appearance on the television schedule:
February 15 @ 9:00pm Archetypes
February 19 @ 10:00pm Angel Takes All: No-Limit Texas Hold'em
February 21 @10:00pm The Fighter
February 22 @ 9:00pm i-ROBOT Poetry
March 12 @ 10:00pm The Upside of Down

AND, for extra special added bonus, you can now use the interactive program guide to check for your local channel AND airdates! One Bullet Away, JPod, This Hour Has Seven Decades, ICE, What Casanova Told Me -- they're all on the sked -- Check out http://www.movieola.ca/
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5. Neil Smith's First Live Reading from Bang Crunch
Watch New Face of Fiction newbie Neil Smith perform (and we mean get into character!) at his first-ever public reading to an audience ... other than his cat ... at International Readings At Harbourfront.
Now up on http://bookshorts.blip.tv/ and http://www.bookshorts.com/blog
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About BookShorts
BookShorts are short films adapted from books, including exclusive behind-the-scenes features. They have screened nationally on television specialty channels, in film and literary festivals from Vancouver to St. John's, New York and Washington. BookShorts Literacy Program is supported by Canadian Heritage Book Publishing Industry Development Fund and our partners in the Canadian publishing community. For current catalogue, visit http://www.bookshorts.com/.

Judith Keenan
BookShorts Literacy Program / BookShorts Inc.
Judith@BookShorts.com

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