Co-Hosted by Paul Quarrington, Judith Keenan with Special Guests James McCreath, Brian G. Smith, Rachel Peters, and more.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West.
7pm Doors; 7:30pm Film Screening;
Xmas Party Following
Co-Sponsored by BookShorts and Karen Marren Design.

RSVPs, questions, comments or suggestions, email judith@bookshorts.com.

Moving Stories "5-of-6" Tour Report

From Winnipeg, to Calgary, St. John's, Banff, Ottawa, and Vancouver (pretty much in that order - whew!) Moving Stories Films is just back from 5 of 6 cities in its first ever national screening tour.


Thin Air: Winnipeg Intl Writers Fest. Special Guest Randall Maggs, author of Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books), film directed by Justin Simms. Plus Master Class workshops on adapting books to film/TV with Susin Neilsen, Paul Quarrington, Judith Keenan.
Watch the Winnipeg Video Report.


St. John's Women's Intl Film Festival. Special Guest Irene Duma, Director This Hour Has Seven Decades (McArthur) with Rachel Peters, Director Nagasaki Circus.*
Read the Feature Article in The Telegram


WordFest: Banff-Calgary Intl Writers Fest. Special Guest Andrew Davidson, author of The Gargoyle (Doubleday US/ Random House Canada), film by Bert Kish. Lots of additional programming, including workshop on teh process of adaptation with Paul Quarrington, Judith Keenan, Nino Ricci, Anne Collins, Andrew Davidson, and Randall Maggs. Rockin' concert by Porkbelly Futures.
Read the fantastic press coverage from Calgary


Ottawa Writers Festival. Special Guest Gary Thomas, Director of A Life's Passion and The Upside of Down; Animation Director Moving Stories Films, Pavane; plus Moving Stories Film Advisor (you can see why he's a special gent!). Two Master Class Workshop very well attended, by Quarrington/Keenan with Tom Shoebridge; Thomas / Peters with Ottawa Animation Fest guru Chris Robinson. Fab concert by Porkbelly Futures
Watch the October Video Report

Vancouver Intl Writers Festival. Special Guest Ivan E. Coyote, author of the short story No Bikini, (in the book Spider Man, Arsenal Pulp Press), film directed bu Claudia Morgado Escanilla. Excellent solo musical performance by Quarrington.
Watch the October Video Report

* Nagasaki Circus was produced with the assistance of Bravo!FACT and NFB