Manalive and Related Stuff

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Manalive and Related Stuff 2014-12-30T21:28:04-07:00 Mark Shea

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Hey! Big News! Manalive will finally get its world premiere and become available for sale! Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society and Executive Producer of Manalive gives the skinny:

Attention!

The 31st Annual G.K. Chesterton Conference will be Aug. 2-4, 2012, at the Silver Legacy Hotel (and Casino) in Reno, Nevada.

It will be the 100th anniversary of Chesterton’s novel, Manalive.

To celebrate, we will be showing the world premiere of the movie, “Manalive”, directed by Joey Odendahl and starring Mark Shea and Kevin O’Brien.

Featured speakers are Dale Ahlquist and Joseph Pearce

And also: Mark Shea and Kevin O’Brien. And Joey Odendahl himself.

We will also have Jason Jones, the producer of the movie “Bella”.

Julian Ahlquist will be speaking on “Chesterton and Aristotle”

Ralph Wood of Baylor University will be speaking on his new book “Chesterton and The Nightmare Goodness of God.”

The theme of the conference will be a pivotal line from Manalive: “Break the Conventions. Keep the Commandments.”

Playing a major role in the hosting duties will be the Chesterton Society of Nevada, led by Sharon Parker. We’re hoping to have the Bishop of Reno say Mass for us at the Cathedral, which is only two blocks from the hotel in downtown Reno. The area features lots of wonderful things to see and do, including beautiful Lake Tahoe, historic Virginia City, a variety of art galleries, family friendly activities (safari zoo, water park, Exploratorium), and a monastery and a convent. That’s right. What did you think you’d find in Reno?

It will be the best conference we’ve ever had.

We’re going to establish the schedule very early and make registration available very early and publicize the event very heavily for the coming year. But let’s start getting the word out right now.

-dale

Dale Ahlquist
President, American Chesterton Society

For them that’s new to the blog, we shot Manalive in Savannah, GA (and around Washington State) in March/April 2009 and have been laboring (as is the custom with small Indie films) to get it into distribution ever since. I’m excited (and terrified) to have the film finally seeing the light of day. Excited because I naturally want to share the fruits of our labor. Terrified because, hey, what if I suck and wreck the work of all the good actors they cast? Anyway, I hope you will all snap it up as soon as it becomes available and let us know what you think. And we still hope to get it into theatres. Your prayers are appreciated to that end.

Speaking of acting, I will be speaking at Carnegie-Mellon U on October 24 on “The Drama of Faith”, discussing the relationship between theatre and the Catholic Tradition. Should be fun! For more info, contact, Fr. Joshua Kibler at the U Pitt Newman Center.

Finally since us indie film types need to stick together, here an appeal from another indie filmmaker:

Hi Mark,

First off, I’m a fan of your blog. I’ve been reading your posts for a while now.

I’m reaching out because I’m a Catholic filmmaker and I recently produced a documentary film with bestselling author Immaculee Ilibagiza called IF ONLY WE HAD LISTENED, about the Vatican-approved apparitions that happened in Kibeho, Rwanda.

We are trying to promote the film on a grassroots level, as it’s fairly difficult to get any Hollywood support. I was hoping that you might want to check the film out and, ultimately, help us inform people about it.

You can see the trailer here:

Kind regards,

Sean

Sean Bloomfield
Director/Producer
IF ONLY WE HAD LISTENED

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