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Each BookShort page includes a link to the BookShort film,
a selection of the enhanced video features, and links to the films' photo gallery and press kit.

LICENSING for broadcast / About the TV Series MOVING STORIES

ORIGINAL BOOKSHORTS

• A Life's Passion

• The Upside of Down

• One Bullet Away

• i-ROBOT Poetry

• The Fighter

• Archetypes

• Angel Takes All: No Limit Texas Hold'em

• JPod

• Confessions of a Pilgrim

• My Heart is Africa

• This Hour Has Seven Decades

• What Casanova Told Me

• ICE: Beauty Danger History

• A Quiet Courage

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DISTRIBUTION TITLES

• The Secret Mountain Featuring "A Treasure in My Garden"

• The Scotiabank Giller Prize Profiles featuring Paul Quarrington on Galveston

BOOKSHORTS CATALOGUE
of ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS

JPod
By: Douglas Coupland
Pub: Random House Canada; Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK Genre: Fiction / Comedy
Writer: Bruce Pirrie
Release: January 2007

i-ROBOT Poetry
By: by Jason Christie
Pub: EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing.
Genre: Prose Poems / Animation
Dir: Lisa Mann & Curtis Wehrfritz
Writer: Link York
Release: September 2006

The Fighter
By: Craig Davidson
Pub: Penguin Canada, Norton US
Genre: Fiction / Drama
Dir: Mark Hesselink
Writer: Mona Zaidi
Release: October 2006

Angel Takes All: No Limit Texas Hold'em
By: Angel Largay
Pub: ECW Press
Genre: Poker Non-Fiction / Comedy
Dir: Bert Kish
Writer: Paul Quarrington
Release: September 2006

Archetypes
By: Mireille Silcoff
Illustrator: Kagan McLeod
Pub: McClelland and Stewart
Genre: Humour / Animated Comedy
Dir / Writer: Irene Duma
Release: October 2006

Confessions of a Pilgrim
by Sue Kenney
Pub: White Knight
Genre: Inspirational Non-Fiction / Doc
Dir: by Bert Kish
Writers: Bruce Pirrie & Sue Kenney
Release: Winter 2007

My Heart is Africa
by Scott Griffin
Pub: Thomas Allen Publishing
Genre: Travel Adventure / EPK
Trailer Dir: Craig Goodwill
Writer: Paul Quarrington
Release: March 2006

This Hour Has Seven Decades
By: Patrick Watson
Pub: McArthur & Company
Genre: Memoir / Mockumentary
Dir / Writer: Irene Duma
Release: June 2005 Worldwide Short Film Festival

ICE Beauty Danger History
By: Pauline Couture
Pub: McArthur & Company
Genre: Cultural Science / Animated Doc
Dir: Daniel Borins
Animation: Oli Goldsmith
Release: March 2005 CBC ZeD TV

A Quiet Courage
by Paula Todd
Pub: Thomas Allen Publishing
Genre: Inspirational Non-Fiction / Doc
Dir: Francine Zuckerman
Release: June 2005 TVOntario

COLLECTIONS DISTRIBUTED BY BOOKSHORTS

The Secret Mountain
Children's Storybooks, Audio CDs and DVD Music Videos Groundbreaking and award-winning children's songs and literature - multi-media storybooks and audio CDs.

FEATURED ANIMATIONS: The Fabulous Song; Dream Songs Night Songs; Lullaby Berceuse; A Treasure in My Garden; A Duck in New York City; A Poodle in Paris by Juno award-winning Connie Kaldor all now available in Canada (English and French); A Treasure in my Garden will be released in American in 2007.

The Giller Profiles
Originally produced for broadcast in the context of the prestigious annual Scotiabank Giller Prize live awards show, the collection of more than 50 profiles, each 3 minutes in duration, includes readings with dramatic adaptations with high profile authors such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, Ann-Marie MacDonald.