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- Moving Stories on TV
- BookShorts on Chapters Indigo Live
- JPod World Premiere at SXSW
- Movieola BookShort Broadcasts
- Blog Features Neil Smith
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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
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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
www.bookshorts.com.
Judith Keenan
BookShorts Literacy Program / BookShorts Inc.
Judith@BookShorts.com
BookShorts
Newsletters at http://www.bookshorts.com/newsletter.htm
To
Submit Films and Manuscripts, email development@bookshorts.com
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