HNA 2023 Haibun Film Festival

 
Thursday, June 29, 2023 - 4 pm

Partnering with Moving Poems, an expanding online archive of poetry videos, Haiku North America is showcasing a haibun film festival on Thursday afternoon of the conference.

Thank you to all who submitted haibun for consideration.  All submissions were evaluated anonymously by our haibun judges, Jim Kacian and Jannifer Hambrick, then sent to Moving Poems.  Not all haibun selected by the haibun judges were made into films.  Dave Bonts, HNA's partner for the Film Fesstival has announced the nine films selelected by filmmakers to make into films at the Moving Poems website.

The selected poems will be screened for the first time at Haiku North America and then published online on the Moving Poems website.

The nine films are:
Table for One (haibun by Carol Ann Palomba), Director Matt Mullins, United States
The Gone Missing: A Haibun by Joseph Aversano, Director Marilyn McCabe, United States
Haibun – The Gone Missing by Joseph Aversano, Director En D, Australia
Unremembered (haibun by Marjorie Buettner), Director Pat van Boeckel, Netherlands
The Gone Missing (Joseph Aversano), Director Janet Lees, United Kingdom
Hypnic Jerk (haibun by Alan Peat), Directors Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran, United States
The Longest Journey by Bob Lucky, Director Pete Johnston, United States
The Gone Missing by Joseph Aversano, Director Pete Johnston, United States
The Gone Missing (Joseph Aversano), Director Beate Gördes, Germany