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Elevator Pitch Web Series: Benj Gallander
Where we take an elevator ride with writer/poet/hugger extra-ordinaire, Benj Gallander. Produced in association with The Writers Union of Canada and BookShorts Literacy Program.Collected in bookshorts's videos Apr 4, 2012 -
Paul Quarrington with Ivan E. Coyote
www.movingstoriesfilmfest.com -- Moving Stories Curator Paul Quarrington talks to Ivan E. Coyote on location at Vancouver International Writer's Festival, where the film program was presented to a standing-room-only audience.Collected in bookshorts's videos Mar 20, 2012 -
EREBOS - the thrilling international best seller by Ursula Poznanski
Erebos - an intelligent computer game with a disturbing agenda. Players of the game must obey strict rules: always play alone, never talk about the game, and never tell anyone your secret character.Collected in bookshorts's videos Feb 4, 2012 -
Human Happiness - A BookShort featuring Brian Fawcett
FROM THE AUTHOR: Loss, and the threat of it, is a bitter-sweet catalyst. My parents were in their 90’s when I realized I knew them in only one dimension – as my parents, aka personal maid, chauffeurs, and in the case of my father – alpha male and mortal enemy.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 1, 2011 -
Beyond Bullets: A Photo Journal of Afghanistan
Award-winning photographer Rafal Gerszak spent a year embedded with the American military in Afghanistan, where he used his camera to document everyday life in the war-torn country. BEYOND BULLETS: A PHOTO JOURNAL OF AFGHANISTAN (Annick Press) addresses the volatile situation in Afghanistan with sensitivity and profound insight.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 9, 2011 -
A Stranger at Home - Video Book Trailer from Annick Press
A Stranger at Home, by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton with artwork by Liz Amini-Holmes, is the sequel to the unforgettable memoir FATTY LEGS. In this episode, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak (aka Olemaun) is traveling to be reunited with her family in the arctic.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 4, 2011 -
Hangman in the Mirror
Kate Cayley's new young adult novel, The Hangman in the Mirror (Annick Press), revolves around a dire decree “Françoise Laurent, you are hereby sentenced to death by hanging, which sentence to be carried out in the month of December, in the city of Montreal, in the year of our Lord 1751. May God have mercy upon your soul.” But all Françoise wanted when she stole her lady’s gloves was to have something of her own, to relieve her desparate poverty.Collected in bookshorts's videos Mar 5, 2011 -
Cry of the Giraffe from Annick Press
One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land — all based on a true story. The book is written by Judie Oron, a journalist, who risked her life to save the real girl, Wuditu, from Ethiopia and take her to safety in Israel, where she still lives today.Collected in bookshorts's videos Feb 17, 2011 -
Behind the ICE - The Making of an Animated Short Film
This video follows the making of the BookShorts animated short adapted from author Pauline Couture's non-fiction book, ICE Beauty Danger History, including an interview with director Daniel Borins. For the short film, and more book videos visit movingstories.tvCast: MovingStories.TVTags: bookshorts, movingstories.tv, pauline couture, ice, adaptation, short film, animation and book videoCollected in bookshorts's videos Dec 29, 2010 -
BookShorts Film: GLACE Beaute Danger Histoire
This BookShort animated film, narrated in French by author Pauline Couture, is based on the non-fiction book of the same name. It has been adapted by auteur Daniel Borins with animator Oli Goldsmith.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 29, 2010 -
A Life`s Passion by James McCreath
A Life’s Passion is the biography of author James McCreath, who turned his real-life story into a book of epic proportions, RENALDO. In this short film, James`fiction is imagined in brilliant animated sequences by director Gary Thomas, staying cinematically true to the sweeping historical fiction that McCreath honed through seven years of diligent research, astute political observation, and the dedication of a zealous sports fan.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 22, 2010 -
PAVANE directed by Paul Quarrington
Connected by debilitating memories, bottomless drinks, and the pretext of being strangers, Phil and Jay play out a darkly comic ritual in an effort to redeem themselves, and each other, of a shameful childhood incident. Cutting between live action performed by an award-winning cast and ingenuous animation whose simplicity belies the impact of the incident it reveals, Pavane portrays both the loss of innocence and a subtle hint at the boys’ fragile potential for a new beginning.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 22, 2010 -
Africans Thought Of It Video Book Trailer
movingstories.tv ... Africans Thought of It is the fourth book in Annick's successful We Thought of It series, and is written by Bathseba Opini and Richard B.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 13, 2010 -
A Sword in Her Hand from Annick Press
movingstories.tv -- Growing up under the disapproving eye of her heartless father, the strong-willed Marguerite instinctively learns to survive in the fierce and violent male world of the Middle Ages, with its pagan rituals and bloody fights to the death. When her father demands that she wed a man she detests, the young countess uses all her cunning to stop the marriage.Collected in bookshorts's videos Dec 2, 2010 -
Are You Ready performed by songwriters Dan Hill, Martin Worthy
movingstories.tv -- In May 2009, shortly after a diagnosis that would end his life, Paul Quarrington decided he would finish what he started. A book, which inspired a film, which commissioned a song.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 30, 2010 -
HELD by Edeet Ravel, from Annick Press
movingstories.tv - What happens when the source of your worst fears becomes the object of your affection? In the YA novel HELD, Edeet Ravel explores the tangled emotions of a young girl abducted during an innocent tour on the continent.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 17, 2010 -
Porkbelly Futures perform CRAZY RAIN
movingstories.tv -- Porkbelly Futures perform CRAZY RAIN from the album THE CROOKED ROAD; a song composed by Martin Worthy in memory of his writing partner and life-long friend Paul Quarrington. This performance was one part of a high-energy event presented by Kingston Writers Festival called "PQ's People Mix It Up", a tribute to Quarrington that included theatrical stagings of his plays and novels, readings from a roster of fellow authors, with musical headliners Porkbelly Futures.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 17, 2010 -
In The Rock Hall by Dave Bidini with Porkbelly Futures
movingstories.tv -- Dave Bidini performs IN THE ROCK HALL with the Porkbelly Futures, a song he composed based on Paul Quarrington's poem of the same name. This performance was just part of a high-energy event presented by Kingston Writers Festival called "PQ's People Mix It Up", a fitting tribute to Quarrington that included theatrical stagings of his plays and novels, readings from a roster of fellow authors, with musical headliners Porkbelly Futures.Collected in bookshorts's videos Nov 17, 2010 -
Fatty Legs Video Book Trailer from Annick Press
movingstories.tv ... FATTY LEGS: A True Story is the poignant memoir of an Inuit girl who emerges from the trials of a residential school in the Arctic with her spirit intact, despite the hardships foisted on her by the experience.Collected in bookshorts's videos Oct 25, 2010 -
Video Book Trailer: The Night Wanderer
movingstories.tv -- A sleepy native reserve. A troubled teen girl.Collected in bookshorts's videos Sep 30, 2010
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bookshorts Where we take an elevator ride with writer/poet/hugger extra-ordinaire, Benj Gallander. Produced in association with The Writers Union of Canada and BookShorts Literacy Program.
Apr 4, 2012