WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival

Highlights

Moving Stories Films takes the show to WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival on October 15. We’ve got a few stories and interviews in the works with SWERVE (the WordFest event sponsor), FFWD and others. We’re thrilled to have The Perfection of the Moment (based on John Gould’s stories)in our program lineup, directed by Calgary filmmaker Corey Lee, who has just screened more shorts at CIFF and EIFF. Corey joins Paul Quarrington, Founder Judith Keenan, Randall Maggs, Andrew Davidson, Nino Ricci and Anne Collins at the screening event.

Moving Stories Film Gala

October 15, 2008
Start: 5:30 pm End: 7:30 pm
Venue: Vertigo Theatre Centre - The Studio

New to the Festival is Moving Stories Film Festival, a hilarious, odd and poignant program of short films from all over the world. Moving Stories Films kicks off with a red carpet screening and gala and continues throughout the Festival with workshops with curators and advisors Judith Keenan, Anne Collins, Paul Quarrington, Nino Ricci and special guest Andrew Davidson. Chat with film currators and have books signed at the reception following the screening.
Presented with the support of Calgary Arts Development Authority.
SWERVE is the media sponsor of Moving Stories Film Fest.

Words into Action / Moving Stories Industry Insider Series

October 16, 2008
Start: 5:30 om End: 6:45 pm
Venue: Motel/EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts

Anne Collins, Judith Keenan, Paul Quarrington & Nino Ricci
Expert know-how on the form of the ‘bookshort’: artform, marketing and the written word to film. Includes the premiere of PAVANE.
Presented with the support of Calgary Arts Development Authority.
SWERVE is the media sponsor of Moving Stories Film Fest.

Self Marketing, Moving Stories Industry Insiders Series

October 17, 2008
Start: 5:30 pm End: 6:45 pm
Venue: Vertigo Theatre Centre - The Studio

Alberto Chimal, Tish Cohen & Randall Maggs - Join artists on the cusp of new trends in storytelling and publishing as they discuss blogging, film making and more.
Presented with the support of Calgary Arts Development Authority.
SWERVE is the media sponsor of Moving Stories Film Fest.

Miles Merrill, Paul Quarrington & Porkbelly Futures

October 17, 2008
Start: 8:00 pm End:
Venue: The Banff Centre - The Club

Kicking off the WordFest weekend in Banff, the exceptionally colourful, genre-defying band, Porkbelly Futures, led by renaissance man Paul Quarrington, take to the stage in a musical celebration of The Banff Centre’s 75th Anniversary. Austalia’s spoken word tour de force, Miles Merrill warms the microphone.Porkbelly Futures
October 17, 2008
Start: 8:00 pm
Venue: The Banff Centre - The Club

Moving Stories Film Fest and Lunch

October 19, 2008
Start: 12:15 pm End: 1:30 pm
Venue: The Banff Centre - Bentley Chamber Music Studio

Join us for lunch while enjoying a screening of Moving Stories Films.
Presented with the support of Calgary Arts Development Authority.
SWERVE is the media sponsor of Moving Stories Film Fest.

Write, Camera, Action!

October 19, 2008
Start: 1:30 pm End: 2:15 pm
Venue: The Banff Centre - Rolston Recital Hall

Cecil Castellucci, Tish Cohen, John Connolly & Paul Quarrington
Novelists, screenwriters, playwrights and filmmakers share the art of transferring the written word to the screen – big and small. This event sponsored by Harper Collins Canada Ltd.

For tickets and details, visit http://www.wordfest.com/