More Festivals & Broadcasts for MSF Films

Can’t hold a good film back — A Life’s Passion will be broadcast on CBC Reflections, April 12.  Pavane will premiere on CBC Reflections April 5.  Nagasaki Circus has been invited for inclusion in Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted Animation Festival, and Pavane continues it’s US invasion with WorldFest Houston International Film & Video Festival April 17-26, 2009.  If you’re a filmmaker who toured with us, or submitted your film for consideration, drop a line and let us know about your screenings and broadcasts – email development-at-bookshorts-dot-com .

 

Congrats to filmmakers breaking down the border!

Pavane and Nagasaki Circus to premiere in US Film Festivals … Two of the films that made their premiere in our inaugural year’s national Canadian tour, and both produced with the assistance of Bravo!FACT,  are making their impressions on the American’s too!  Chicago International Movie and Music Festival has accepted Paul Quarrington’s Pavane –  it will make its US theatrical premiere March 7 during the festival’s run March 5 – 8. The festival programmer Mike Phillips wrote to say “ …astonishing–a great demonstration of how much life and back story one can fit in a short running time.  I think it has more to say than most feature-length films.” Michael W Phillips, Jr. Programming Director, Chicago International Movies and Music Festival. More on the festival at  http://www.cimmfest.org/#/shorts/4532742718

 

 

Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Amimation Festival has accepted Rachel’s Peter’s Nagasaki Circus for inclusion in their 2009 line up.  Not only does the Festival have a home base in California, but it tours to various US and Canadian cities too.  It was Spike himself that emailed Rachel with the most excellent observation, and this is a direct quote “I really liked the film”… Watch for details on their webpage … here http://www.spikeandmike.com/

Canadian National TV Broadcast for Pavane

We’ve got the word that PQ’s “Pavane” is scheduled for TV premiere on Bravo!FACT Presents, that’sthe national Bravo! Canada channel, Sunday February 22, at 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT, also airing on various ‘A’ stations — ‘A’ Victoria Saturday at 11:00pm local time; check local listings for other ‘A’ channel areas (Barrie, London, Ottawa, Windsor, and Wingham Ontario). 

 

And in a stroke of like-minded programming, the first two films in Corey Lee’s kilter trilogy, The Perfection of the Moment and What You’re Ready For, will be airing on the same upcoming episode of Bravo!FACT Presents!  Along with Pavane, Bravo!FACT Presents EP: 413 “Adaptations 2009” Corey Lee finds his inspiration in John Gould’s Giller-shortlisted anthology “Kilter” for his shorts “The Perfection of the Moment” which Quarrington programmed for the Moving Stories Film Festival, accompanied by Lee’s “What You’re Ready For.”  The fourth film in the episode is a scene from playwright Michael Healey’s “Generous” which forms the basis for Daryl Cloran’s political satire “P.M.O.”

 

Episode 413 will be re-run at 8:00 pm ET/6:00 pm MT Friday February 27th on Bravo!. It will also air on ‘A’ in Victoria, BC on Saturday 28 February at 11:00 pm local time; and in Ontario on ‘A’ in Barrie, London, Windsor, and Wingham, and Ottawa on Saturday February 28th at 6:30 pm local time. All airdates are subject to change; please check your local listings.