On Saturday June 5th, ChiZine participated in the World's Biggest Speculative Fiction event at World's Biggest Bookstore. The event featured readings from Gemma Files, David Nickle, and Brent Hayward. The post-reading discussion was led by our co-publisher, Sandra Kasturi, and the blog Sci-Fi Fan Letter has uploaded some video of that discussion!
Come to the Pontypool screening, December 3rd at 9pm at the Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Ave). There will be book signings, a Q&A with Tony Burgess, Stephen McHattie and Lisa Houle, and a screening of the book trailer for Tony Burgess' latest book, People Live Still in Cashtown Corners!
TORONTO, Ontario (October 19, 2010) – A trailer for People Live Still in Cashtown Corners (Tony Burgess) is now available on ChiZine Publications’ website and in high definition on its YouTube channel.
The 60-second trailer was officially unveiled at the ChiZine Publications (CZP) launch party for its six Fall 2010 titles held on Friday, October 22 in Toronto, Ontario. Shot in a single afternoon at Tony Burgess’s Stayner, Ontario house, the trailer was directed by noted Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, The Collector, Hard Core Logo, The Tracey Fragments.)
Burgess and McDonald collaborated before in bringing Burgess’s novel Pontypool Changes Everything to the screen as the 2008 film Pontypool. (McDonald confirmed on the day of the trailer shooting that Pontypools 2 and 3 are currently in development.) After the success of Pontypool, Savory looked to McDonald to bring to life what Burgess envisioned for the Cashtown trailer.
“I saw what Bruce had done on Pontypool and I wanted in,” Savory remarks, who was on hand for the filming. “Book trailers are a new phenomenon and everyone is experimenting with how to do them—from self-published authors to big publishing houses. Rather than try to talk about the plot or show the cover with a voice-over, Bruce and Tony nailed the feel of book. And having such a cinematic vision really takes it up a notch. Tony and Bruce have done something new that will build up excitement for the book, and raise the bar for book trailers. It’s bloody, it’s intriguing, and as always, Tony gave us a lot to work with.”
What’s more, Savory commented on how supportive the Canadian creative community is. “Watch the trailer and keep in mind: the director, author, actors, crew and publisher are all Canadian. I think for this to happen in Hollywood or with big names, it would take months of contracts and negotiations. That we could produce something as gorgeous as this speaks to the power of the creative industry in Canada.”
People Live Still in Cashtown Corners is a fictional retelling of a real murder case, told from the point of view of the culprit whose heinous acts make him feel more human than he’s ever felt. The photo inserts featuring real crime scene photos add an eerie depth to the novella.
In addition to People Live Still in Cashtown Corners, Tony Burgess is the author of The Hellmouths of Bewdley, Pontypool Changes Everything, Caesarea, and Fiction for Lovers.
Film Credits
Director: Bruce McDonald Writer: Tony Burgess Cinematographer: Michael LeBlanc Editor: Mina Sewell Mancuso Music Courtesy of Harmonia Mundi
Tony Burgess as Bob Clark Charlie Baker as Charlie Baker Jayde Barlow as Patricia Lerner Amber as Helen Lerner Ed Gataveckas as Jeffrey Lerner
About ChiZine Publications ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, subtle, surreal and disturbing dark fiction. It is the book-length, print version outgrowth of ChiZine, an online professional market in operation since 1997 focused on the same type of story material. All of CZP’s publications are hand-picked by co-Publishers and Bram Stoker Award-winners Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi.
