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It's official: the award winning short film What You're Ready For, written and directed by Corey Lee, will be included in this year's Prairie Tales, the annual touring collection of short film and video works by Alberta filmmakers and media artists. The second film in Lee's Kilter Trilogy recently picked up the award for Best Short Film at the 2008 Alberta Film and Television Awards, after receiving six nominations, and won the Best Alberta Short Film prize at the 2007 Edmonton International Film Festival.

The 10th edition of Prairie Tales has just begun it's tour and will be screening next at the North Country Fair in Driftpile, AB this weekend, June 20-22. Next it will be presented at Edmonton's Metro Cinema on Saturday July 12th, 2008 as part of Cinemathon, which will feature various art activites, short film and video works, as well as live music.

Prairie Tales 10 is presented by the Metro Cinema Society with support from Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society.

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"What You're Ready For", the second chapter in Corey Lee's short film trilogy, won the award for Best Short Film at the 2008 edition of the Alberta Film & Television Awards, held in Edmonton on April 26th.

The film, nominated for a total of six awards, is adapted from the 2003 Giller Prize finalist collection, Kilter: 55 Fictions, by the wonderfully talented John Gould. Based on the story of the same name, "What You're Ready For" tells of an emotionally devastated man who seeks truth in the words of the charismatic self-help guru who stole his wife. The film features multiple Gemini Award winning actor, Michael Riley, Vancouverite Stephen Park, and Calgary based performers, Shelley Kinaschuk and Chantal Perron.

Chapter one in the trilogy, "The Perfection of the Moment", won this same award in 2006 and went on to collect more accolades and screen at a variety of festivals. The final film of the Kilter Trilogy, "In Translation", starring Vincent Gale and Simone-Elise Girard, is in the process of being completed and will begin it's festival run later this year.

"What You're Ready For" was made possible by the generous support of Bravo!FACT, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ACTRA Alberta, Panavision Calgary, MTM, joeMedia Group, Six Degrees and Studio Post.

Prairie Tales 9 is winding down, but not wrapped quite yet. The annual touring collection of Alberta short film and video produced by Metro Cinema, in partnership with the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society, is screening Tuesday April 22nd at 7:30pm at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 601 - 3rd Avenue South in Lethbridge, Alberta. Carol Beecher will be introducing the program and discussing her featured animation piece, "Intergalactic Who's Who: The Pork n' Beings".

The 2008 Alberta Film and Television Awards Finalists were released today. "What You're Ready For" has been nominated in a total of six Dramatic categories, including: Best Short Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Cinematographer - Robin Loewen, Best Overall Sound - George Tarrant, John Iaquinta & Jonas Hurtig and Best Original Score - Alec Harrison.

"What You're Ready For" was produced by Corey Lee and Tinu Sinha and made possible by the generous support of Bravo!FACT, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ACTRA Calgary, Panavision Calgary, MTM, joeMedia Group, Six Degrees and Studio Post.

Filmmaker Corey Lee's short film "What You're Ready For", the 2nd chapter of his Kilter Trilogy, will screen as part of the 2008 Canadian Film Fest in Toronto, Ontario.

The Festival runs March 25th - 29th and "What You're Ready For" screens as part of the Shorts Screening #2 strand at the Carlton Cinemas on Saturday, March 29th at 4:00pm. For tickets and information visit www.canfilmfest.ca.

The film is adapted from the 2003 Giller Prize nominated collection Kilter: 55 Fictions, by John Gould. Based on the story of the same name, What You're Ready For deals with an emotionally devastated man who seeks truth in the words of the charismatic self-help guru who stole his wife. The film stars multiple Gemini Award winning actor Michael Riley ("Race to Mars", "This is Wonderland") and Stephen Park ("The Englishman's Boy", "Da Vinci's Inquest").

The trilogy's first chapter, "The Perfection of the Moment", won the Reel Canadian Indie Award at the 2007 edition of the Canadian Film Fest, as well as the 2007 MING Short Film Festival Grand Prize and the 2006 Alberta Film and Television Award for Best Short Film after receiving a total of seven nominations. The film went on to screen at a variety of festivals across the country and will air across Canada on Bravo! in the near future.

"What You're Ready For" was made possible by the generous support of Bravo!FACT, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ACTRA Calgary, Panavision Calgary, MTM, joeMedia Group, Six Degrees and Studio Post.

The 2003 feature film, defining edward, will screen at 6:30pm on Thursday March 13th, 2008 at the Nickle Arts Museum on the University of Calgary Campus, 2500 University Drive Northwest, Calgary, Alberta. The film is being presented as part of the spring 2008 edition of the Nickle Nights Movie Series and admission is FREE. The writer and director, Corey Lee, will be in attendance for a brief Q & A following the film.

Meet Edward (Joel McNichol), a poverty stricken, substance-abusing cartoonist. When an allergic reaction lands him in the hospital, Edward checks himself out and wanders into unfamiliar territory.

Suffering from amnesia, Edward is attended to by Brian (Peter Strand Rumpel), a doctor who believes he can restore Edward's memory. As pieces of his past return, Edward meets Anna (Joely Collins), a timid artist, and Nick (Diego Del Mar), a foul mouthed welder, each who take vastly different approaches in their own attempts to cure him.

What began as the kindness of strangers turns into a twisted game of self-preservation, as Edward fights to unlock the truth behind his own troubled
past.


defining edward was made possible by the generous support of a brilliant cast and crew, William F. White International, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, National Film Board of Canada, ACTRA Calgary, the Director's Guild of Canada Alberta District, IATSE 212 and IATSE 669, Studio Post, Rainmaker and the fine gentlemen at Six Degrees Music and Production.