No Bikini

Dir. Claudia Morgado Escanilla / Canada / 9:00 / Fiction
A young girl pretending to be a boy discovers the freedom that comes with no bikini.

What Moving Stories FIlms Advisors Are Saying…

This [short] film has the scope of a feature. It has structure; it has story; it has a character arc; it has an epiphany. I didn’t know Ivan Coyote’s work before this, but I feel as if the film lets us see the lineaments of the original story in a way that nonetheless takes full advantage of the different possibilities of film. The young girl is wonderful, and utterly convincing. So much of the nuance and emotion of the film come through only in her looks and little gestures, which seems true both to the world of children and to the methods of literature.
-Nino Ricci, Author

A great mini-movie that expresses the topsy-turvy world of the story wonderfully.
-Anne Collins, Publisher

Great performances from the principals, well paced, very cute.
-Gary Thomas, Filmmaker

Moving Stories Curator Paul Quarrington Interviews Ivan E. Coyote

Film Info Sheet

Based on a short story in Close to Spider Man
By Ivan E. Coyote
Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN 978-1551520865

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:
Born in Santiago, Chile. Claudia Morgado Escanilla graduated from Montreal’s Concordia University in 1991. In 2000 she completed the filmmaking course in Residency Program at The Canadian Film Centre where she directed the short film Sufferance. She resides in Vancouver where she has worked professionally for fifteen years in the local film industry. She is in development of her first feature script In Patagonia originally funded by the Telefilm Canada Screenwriter’s Assistant Program.

ABOUT THE BOOK: “From the far reaches of northern Alaska, the 13 brief, interconnected coming-of-age stories of Coyote’s debut collection are as blissfully rich as the countryside in which they are set. All the tomboyish female storytellers are assured and absorbing, acutely aware of their emerging lesbianism while strapped with the true knowledge of “what trouble girls really were”. Fronted with alluring K.D. Lang album-style cover art, this lean, thoroughly entertaining literary scrapbook of Yukon lesbian life will speak strongly to lesbian readers, but deserves a crossover audience for its surefooted, humorous take on misfit love and familial solidarity.
From Publishers Weekly
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