SHORTS
& STORIES
writers
and filmmakers discuss
the art of the short film
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
4:00 PM Pen New England Reception with Writers and Filmmakers
Sponsored by The Bank of Woods Hole and the Woods Hole Inn
The Woods Hole Inn
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7:30 PM Panel Discussion, Q&A, and Film Clips
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SHORTS & STORIES will be a lively panel discussion and Q&A featuring clips
from short films. Writers and filmmakers will discuss
the process of adapting stories to film, the artistic experience of
making and viewing shorts, and the ways that aspiring writers and
filmmakers can enter into the ever-expanding short film world. Panelists include:
Hortense
Gerardo is a writer, anthropologist, and member of
The Dramatists Guild and the International
Center for Women Playwrights. Her screenplay, Fourhand, won
an audience award for Best Cape Cod Film in the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival, as well as Audience Award and Panelist Award for Best
Feature Film in the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre "Filmmaker
Takeover 2009."
George
Harrar is the author of over a half dozen books including The Wonder Kid; The
Spinning Man, a philosophical
mystery; Not As Crazy As I Seem;
The Trouble with
Jeremy Chance; Parents Wanted;
and First Tiger. His short
story, The 5:22, appeared in Best American Short Stories and was
made into a short film.
Matthew
Quinn Martin directed the short film Celebrities in Disgrace, based on a novella by Elizabeth Searle. His screenplay Slingshot was made into a feature film which
premiered at TriBeCa Film Festival. He wrote and directed his own award-winning short, A Walk in the Park, and
his screenplay for A Very Good Year was presented at FilmFest New Haven.
Alysia Reiner's short film,
Speed Grieving, was featured in The New York Women in Film and Television 's SWAN Day Screening, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and The Williamstown Film Festival. Reiner is an award winning actress and producer appearing on the NY stage and on TV shows such as The Sopranos, Law & Order and
30 Rock.
Taylor
Toole is a Cape native whose
most recent short film is After Work. His feature film, Mow Crew, which
he wrote and directed, won Best Feature at the Kent Film Festival. In addition to his other short film, Standing Up, he has worked on Project
Greenlight and the HBO series Deadwood.
Panel Moderated by:
Richard Hoffman is the Chairman of PEN New England and
Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Writing, Literature and
Publishing at Emerson College. Twice named a Massachusetts Cultural
Council Fellow in fiction, he is currently one of The Boston
Foundation's Brother Thomas Fellows. Hoffman's celebrated works include
his collection of short fiction Interference and Other Stories (2009), the memoir Half the House, Without Paradise,
and Gold Star Road, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry
Prize and the New England Poetry Club's Sheila Motton Award for best
book of poetry.
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PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New
England is an organization of published authors, aspiring writers, and
all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance a culture of
literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New
England is a branch of PEN American Center, and part of International
PEN, the oldest international literary organization and also the oldest
human rights organization in the world.
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