February 2007  
 

  1. Moving Stories on TV
  2. BookShorts on Chapters Indigo Live
  3. JPod World Premiere at SXSW
  4. Movieola BookShort Broadcasts
  5. Blog Features Neil Smith


 
 
 

JOURNEYS from the airchair on Moving Stories TV

Thursday, Feb 22 8pm EST on BookTelevision
Sunday, Feb 11 at at 8:30am, 11am, 1pm EST on CLT

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

What Casanova Told Me is published by Vintage Canada, available at Chapters Indigo; Confessions of a Pilgrim will be published April 15, distributed by White Knight Books.

Click here for Moving Stories Website

Chapters Indigo Now Live with BookShort Films
Fans and new readers alike can now find close to thirty different BookShort video interviews and films on Chapters Indigo's website. They are all based on books of course, and events that BookShorts attends. We hope they help to deepen reader connections with literature and the talented artists who create it.

To see these and more too, click on "Author Videos and Podcasts” in the Special Features box right on the Chapters Indigo home page. Chapters' webbies have collected all the best clips, of which (we are proud to say) a whole bunch are from OUR talented media-making peeps!

Visit Author Videos on Chapters Indigo


JPod makes world theatrical premiere at SXSW
We’ve cracked the US film circuit! The JPod BookShort, based on Coupland's "#1 Bestseller" happily rides along with EVERYTHING’S GONE GREEN, the feature whose screenplay was penned by our favourite multi-talented geek artist Douglas Coupland. Seems the programmers at South by Southwest Film Fest took a second look - hey, we'll take it!

Watch the BookShorts website for more news on JPod's screening premiere.

 

Movieola Hosts Full Broadcast Slate of BookShorts

Making their first appearance on the Movieola television schedule:

February 15 @ 9:00pm        Archetypes

February 19 @ 10:00pm       Angel Takes All

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 Movieola for deets


Neil Smith’s First Live Reading: Bang Crunch on the Blog

See a first here first (unless of course you were there :) New Face of Fiction newbie Neil Smith performs (and we mean perform!) his first-ever public reading to an audience (other than his cat) at the International Reading at Harbourfront.

Video at BookShorts.Blip.TV and Moving Stories Blogger



 
 

 

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 www.bookshorts.com.

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

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