Irene Duma - Landscape Painter

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Female Filmmaking Pioneers

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Before women were muscled out of Hollywood, they were writing, directing and producing in abundance. These films are a tribute to these daring femmes, their art and their pioneering ways.

I wrote and directed these 5 short videos for the St. John’s Int’l Women’s Film Festival’s 20th anniversary.They were brilliantly animated by Rachel Peters, with voices by the inimitable Norman Karlik and myself.

I’m off to Atlantic Film Festival to pitch my feature film

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Yay! Just like the title says, I’ve been invited by Telefilm to pitch my feature film at the Atlantic Film Festival. It’s happening in Halifax starting Sept 16th and I am ridiculously excited.

Telefilm is the Canadian big Kahuna – all films are funded via Telefilm. This is the first year they are inviting screenwriters who attended the PEI Screenwriters’ Bootcamp this past June to pitch to Canadian and international broadcasters.

This is also the year Telefilm is changing direction and on the lookout for more commercially viable films. And that means comedy, said Gordon Whittaker of the Atlantic Telefilm office. As you know, I like comedy.

Shout outs to colleagues Roger Maunder who will be pitching at the Inspired Scripts event, and Kelly Davis who is the producer of the short film Cardboard Junction and the director of Down to the Wood – both screening at the festival. Congrats to first time director too, Jacqueline Hynes (Cardboard Junction.)

Creative Directing Book Trailers

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Been busy busy busy at my new job as creativ director of  Book Trailers for BookShorts.com. Just the next logical progression in a long line of association with BookShorts and their book loving ways.

Book videos or video book trailers aim to do what movie trailers do for film, or music videos do for song – aim to get your message out there using video, the all powerful captivating moving image.

With the rise of the video on the web, the Internet is a natural medium for book trailers, and a great way for authors to promote their books, their art, their speaking abilities…and build relationships with their fans.

Book videos can take many forms:

  • Author Biographies
  • Video Book Trailers
  • Themed Book Series
  • Book News
  • BookShorts Films – fully realized short films meant for the festival and/or TV broadcast.

What do you do with your book video? You distribute it and spread it around. Put it on your author web sites, your Facebook fan pages, YouTube and MySpace pages. Use Tubemogul to distribute to up to 20 other video and social networking sites.

Ask your fans to put it on their blogs.

Put it up beside your Amazon page. Ask your local book retailer to set up a kiosk in their store and play it.

Book trailers  can also help you build relationships with your readers, and grow your legion of fans.

In this era, authors are ever more responsible for their own publicity and promotion. Luckily with web tools and social networking this is becoming more and more accessible.

This Hour Has Seven Decades

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Based on the memoir by Patrick Watson, “This Hour Has Seven Decades” packs 50 years of Patrick’s broadcasting tips and 70 years of an extraordinary life into 5 funny minutes.

The film premiered at the World Wide Short Film Festival, which, by the way, is a great festival, and had its Atlantic Premiere at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, another great festival.

Dir / Writer: Irene Duma
Animation: Darryl Gold
Producer: Judith Keenan / BookShorts
Starring: Patrick Watson and Dave Healy
Music: Whitney Smith
Based on the book “This Hour Has Seven Decades” by Patrick Watson
Published by: McArthur & Company
Genre: Comedy/ Mockumentary

Release: June 2005 Worldwide Short Film Festival

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