Room 313 visual/audio response

Robbie Gannon, one of the LSAD students I worked with earlier this year, has posted the video response he made to my short story 'Room 313' and it's awesome!

SHORT STORY ON SCREEN # 2

In short stories in the Oscars news, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which I posted about before here, has received 13 nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay.

And New Boy, which is based on a Roddy Doyle short story, about a Rwandan refugee's first day at his new Irish school, has been nominated in the Best Live Action Short Film.

In other Irish-interest Oscar news, Martin McDonagh has received a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination for In Bruges.

Congrats to all and best of luck. Go n-éirí an bóthar libh!

THE SHORT STORY ON SCREEN

‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ is a film loosely adapted from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s story of the same name. The film starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett will be released (in the USA, presumably) on the 19th of December 2008.

This follows on the tradition of film-makers looking to short fiction for good story fodder: Annie Proulx’s story ‘Brokeback Mountain’ made a fine film; though at 25,000 words it is probably more of a novella. Alice Munro’s story ‘The Bear Came Over the Mountain’ was made into the film ‘Away From Her’ last year. Also the very powerful, Australia-set ‘Jindabyne’ was adapted from a Ray Carver story, ‘So Much Water So Close To Home’; it starred our own lovely Gabriel Byrne.

In ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’, Benjamin (Bradders) is born aging backwards which causes complications when he falls in love with a thirty year old woman (Cate). The pre-blurb says the film is ‘dark, romantic, and deals with mortality in a pretty unflattering way’. Sounds great to me!