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Archetype #36: Beastie Dad

April 13, 2007 By 1 Comment




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Archetype #36: Beastie Dad.
Average age: 38.
Natural habitat: Back office, skateboard/snowboard shop.
Overheard: NOBODY thinks you’re too old, honey. If it makes you feel better, you can say its research for the store.

You can buy the book from Chapters Indigo.ca or visit BookShorts.com for more information about adapting books to screen.

This is number 2 in the short film trilogy Bitter Irene wrote and directed for BookShorts. Guess what we will be posting tomorrow.

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Archetype #17: The Moodie

April 12, 2007 By 1 Comment


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Archetype Number 17: The Moodie.
Average age: 40.
Natural habitat: on a trip to Bhutan to sample yak butter tea.

Overheard: You won’t find me in the sort of joint (the Moodie will often use words like "joint") where it’s two bites of pastel-coloured s— (the Moodie is also fond of profanity) on a plate where some kitchen ponce has made a Jackson Pollock out of coulis!"

It’s shameless self-promotion time. This one minute short was written and directed by our very own Bitter Editor Irene. It’s based on the book Archetypes, written by Mireille Silcoff with illustrations by Kagan McLeod, and is part of the www.BookShorts.com literacy program.

Yay, literacy.

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One Minute Film Festival

November 23, 2006 By Leave a Comment

One of the short films I wrote and directed for BookShorts, The Expectant Mother – Freaked Out Edition, based on the book “Archetypes” by Mireille Silkoff and Kagan McLeod, had its theatrical premiere last night at the One Minute Film Festival.

Festivals are so much fun. No exception last night, where there were lots of 60 second gems, and those pesky art and experimental films were cut off before they could bore us to death. (Why, oh why, do these keep on winning awards? This only encourages them to make more.)

Judith Keenan, producer of the year (11 short films and a TV series) was on hand to film the film at the glamourous event. Watch the BookShorts videoblog where I comment on writing comedy. That’s me and Bitter Diana crashing into each other at the door.

Irene

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69 Hour Film Challenge

October 18, 2006 By Leave a Comment

Recently, Irene and I did the 69 Hour film challenge for Daryl Gold’s Hard Liquor and Porn Film Festival – a comedy short film fest that parodies porn, sex and liquor.

For three days, we hummed and hawed. Do we have time to do this? Should we? Can we make a funny film in 69 hours? Of course, in last-minute film challenge fashion, I rushed over to the Drake Hotel to pick up the package. And watch the Neutrino project, which is an improvised film made during the evening in segments.

And I was totally inspired. The whole notion of a film being long and labourous was evaporated by this team of talented people who made a funny series of short pieces that was creative and inspired. With great use of camera angles, zooms and locations, I thought…wow…maybe you just do it. Maybe I don’t need to agonize over everything.

So Irene and I made a funny film called “How to Sell…with Sex” which was a parody of 1930s/40s training films. We got our friend and collaborator, Charles Watson, to come to do the voice over. Then we wrote him into the script. And he was game for that, too.

We shot the whole thing in 24 hours, as we were both busy. And now, with a few edits, we’re going to shop it around to film festivals. Just like that.

Some of my bitterness wore off that weekend.

Diana

http://www.dianagalligan.com

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