The Lift-Off Global Network is a series of online and in-person film festival worldwide, and Nowhere Normal has been selected to participate in the 2023 Toronto Festival!
AND, audiences as well as a jury will decide on the festival’s best films. Stay tuned for how to catch its online screenings and vote for Nowhere Normal!
Nowhere Normal will be part of the short film program at NextFest 2023, this June 4!
The complete program will be up soon. Follow NextFest for more.
First: Nowhere Normal will be screened in Edmonton this June! It will be part of a Local Heroes community screening, put on by the Edmonton Short Film Festival. Stay tuned for details. You can get a preview at the virtual screening in May, details here.
Second: as you can see above, playwright Heather Morrow will herself be reading from her own play Alex and Michael and Hannah, which is a finalist for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s drama award. Come and support all the finalist writers that day.
The Writers’ Guild of Alberta has named the play Alex and Michael and Hannah, written by screenwriter Heather Morrow, as a finalist for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama!
The winners of all the 2023 Alberta Literary Awards will be announced on June 3rd.
Signed copies of the play are available on our webstore!
FIRST: Thanks to YOU, we’ve updated our IMDb page for short film Reasons I Hate Being Single officially to pre-production! Whoo!
SECOND: We now have the very basics covered to make the movie, but of course we’re NOT making a basic movie. So: have a look at the extraordinary and unique items in our webstore. You’ll find signed play scripts from screenwriter Heather, and the one-of-a-kind storyboards leading to Heather’s first short, Monster Cat!
Thank you again to everyone tuning into the Write-a-Thon livestream this weekend. The resulting play has now been entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition, and if it wins, the prize money will go towards the production of Reasons I Hate Being Single.
Last: Thanks also to everyone who pre-ordered from the Purdy’s Easter Bunny! Deliveries are expected the week of April 3.
I’ve just been informed (can you tell I’m new to this?) that no one can chat with the write on the YouTube livestream without having a YouTube channel of their own!
So: Please send me character names HERE at takeabite instead!
Tomorrow is the day! Starting at 6 pm, and going straight through to 6 pm on March 25, 2023, YOU can tell ME how to write something brand new!
One more important ‘rule’ – post your prompts on the YouTube chat, and donate here on the Take a Bite website. Technology is complicated.
Also: should you want to help make our film Reasons I Hate Being Single and buy Easter chocolate, tomorrow is also your last day to order.
Vroom vroom.
Our Write-a-thon will be in exactly two weeks! Here are some ground rules for the event:
-I will write a new, full-length play, in 24 hours. The live stream will begin at 6 pm on Friday, March 24, 2023, and will end at 6 pm on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The live stream will be embedded in takeabite.ca , and donations must come via that website.
-Viewers will see a split-screen: on one side, me getting more tired and frantic: on the other side, the play as it’s being written!
-Here is the play’s basic plot:
“3 very different people meet online at the start of the pandemic. They connect, but as the pandemic wears on, their individual lives change, which alters their relationship.”
-At 6 pm on March 24, YOU will give me names for the 3 characters! The first 3 donors will get to provide one name each. Submissions will be via the website.
-Every 60 minutes, I will check prompts and donor amounts. Whoever has donated the most in that 60-minute period will get their prompt used next! I must use the prompt, and I must make it make sense.
-At the end of the 24 hours, whoever has donated the highest amount will pick the name for the villain of Reasons I Hate Being Single !
I will have until March 31, 2023 to fix typos, and then the resulting play will be entered into the Alberta Playwriting Competition.
We’d like to give a huge thank-you to Fat Franks for agreeing to be part of Reasons I Hate Being Single ! Audiences will see a Fat Franks hot dog cart in the film, and they’ll also provide on-set catering for the cast and crew.
Please visit one of their restaurants or outside in the spring and summer!
A reminder that the Write-a-thon begins a 6 pm on March 24.
ALSO: there will be a new announcement at the end of the Write-a-thon, at 6 pm on March 25.
