Award winning Calgary Director premieres 2nd chapter of short film trilogy at CIFF & EIFF
Calgary AB. - Calgary filmmaker Corey Lee's short film "What You're Ready For", the 2nd chapter of his Kilter Trilogy, will be premiering on the big screen at both the upcoming Calgary and Edmonton International Film Festivals.
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").
"There are so many great stories and wonderfully cinematic bits in John's (Gould) book, but "What You're Ready For" hit me pretty early on," says Lee, adding "There is just such an exacting and precise wrath wrapped up in the obsessive psychosis of the Narrator's ultra calm and sane exterior. And the collision course that he and Dr. Laird are on is so brilliantly laid out. It's a beautifully wry, tale of irrepressible emotions, similar to "The Perfection of the Moment" and yet very different. A perfect second chapter in this trilogy based on Gould's Kilter stories."
The trilogy's first chapter, "The Perfection of the Moment", won the 2006 Alberta Film and Television Award for Best Short Film after receiving a total of seven nominations, won the Reel Canadian Indie Award at the 2007 Canadian Filmmakers Festival in Toronto and went on to screen at a variety of festivals across the country.
At the Calgary International Film Festival, "What You're Ready For" screens as a finalist for the Alberta Centennial Award for excellence in short filmmaking at the Uptown Stage and Screen on Sunday, September 23 at 6:30pm. For tickets and information visit www.calgaryfilm.com.
As part of the Edmonton International Film Festival, the film will screen on Friday, October 5, first as part of the 'Lunchbox Shorts' series at Edmonton City Centre at 12:10pm, then again that evening at 7:00pm in the 'International Shorts' package at the Princess Theatre II. A filmmaker Q&A will follow the evening screening, where Lee will be in attendance. For tickets and information visit www.edmontonfilmfest.com.
"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.
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For more information or screening copies of the film, please contact
Producers: Corey Lee 403.660.8025 Tinu Sinha 403.809.6370