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- Shooting On-Site at Book Expo x 2
- Donner Prize 10th Anniversary celebrates on screen
- Moving Stories Film Fest adds Sarah Polley, Nino
Ricci
- ACP / OLA commission doc for Forest of
Reading
- Nagasaki Circus fascinates with puppets
and green screen
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Shooting at Book Expo -
LA and TO
The Donner Prize 10th
Anniversary on Screen
In a growing trend to bring energy and
longevity to literary award shows, the Donner Canadian Foundation
commissioned BookShorts to create original video presentations
celebrating ten years of The Donner Prize, celebrating the
best in books on topic of Canadian public policy. A second
module of the presentation including a dynamic overview of
the year's shortlisted titles.
A huge thank you to Susan Meisner, Sherry
Naylor and the team at Meisner, de Groot & Associates,
our partner in moving literature into the 21st century landscape!
See the Donner Prize Shortlist Video
http://www.movingstories.tv
Polley & Ricci Join Moving Stories
Film Fest
We are flattered and wiggly to announce
this -- Sarah Polley and Nino Ricci
have graciously accepted our invitation to become Moving
Stories Film Festival Advisors. Fantastic. Thanks PQ!
IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT .... ART IN VANCOUVER
We have also launched a very interesting
program with Hal Wake at the Vancouver International
Writers Festival. We're calling for creative treatments
from media / film students and alum of VIWF's neighbour, Emily
Carr Institute of Art + Design.
The treatments will propose a BookShort
screen adaptation of one of three books - David Chariandy's
Soucouyant; Kinnie Star's How
I Learned to Run and Dry
Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America by Chris
Wood.
The student chosen by the jury will
receive $1500 from BookShorts to have the film made, and it
will screen on the Moving Stories Film Fest program during the
Vancouver Intl Writers Fest, Saturday, October 25.
There is still time to enter films
based on books to MSFF -- and we are now accepting online submissions
on WithoutaBox.com -- More about it all at >>
http://www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com
Reminder MSFF late deadline
May 20
Forest
of Reading to receive documentary treatment
We finally get to play in the sandbox too!
The Forest of Reading is a children's recreattional reading program.
It is administered by the Ontario Library Association (OLA), and
facilitated by teachers and teacher-librarians in schools, and
by children’s librarians in public libraries across Ontario.
After reading a required number of shortlisted
books, participants vote for their favourites on a province-wide
voting day, and the winning books are announced at a high-energy
ceremony each spring. Over 220,000 kids are enrolled in the program.
On May 21 and 22, hundreds of them will be down at Harbourfront
to take part in those festivities.
It'll be a job and a half keeping up with
that kind of energy, but we're game. BookShorts will be crafting
a documentary feature to help the program's adoption into even
more schools, especially in the farther reaches of the province.
Animating
" Nagasaki Circus"
a fascinating process
http://www.rachelpeterswork.blogspot.com/
Check out those puppet, those cute little
faces, that sweet birdie and goofy monkey. Not so scary right,
in a still image. There is something surreal when a puppet comes
to life in the hands of a master, and we were privileged to have
a peek behind the curtain.
Director / Writer / Blogger Irene Duma and
I visited Rachel Peters on set last week. She
and puppeteer Lee Zimmerman were deeply ensconced
in the shooting of NAGASAKI CIRCUS, her Bravo!FACT
funded short based on the story by Martin Ewen.
This puppet technique encompasses all of the magic of stop-motion
animation, but in real-time. The puppets will then be composited
together in After Effects, at times creating crowds of puppets,
leaving the audience to postulate that there is one omnipotent,
octopus Puppet Master who can manipulate all within this world.
It's going to be really, really amazing.
Check in to Rachel's
blog and see if it ain't so.
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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 media catalogue, visit
www.bookshorts.com.
Judith Keenan, BookShorts Literacy
Program / BookShorts Inc.
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