Mia interview with David Rancken
Posted on: December 02, 2008 | Filed under: I Live Here, Media Alerts | 0 Comments
David Rancken of KVIL radio station in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX was kind enough to email me this morning and let me know about the interview he did with Mia recently. You can either stream or download the podcast here (it’s the 2nd interview under “The Rancken File”) and it’s about 40 minutes in length. It’s a great listen, so do check it out when you have a moment.
Dear Diary
Posted on: October 28, 2008 | Filed under: I Live Here, Interviews, Media Alerts | 0 Comments
Most journals are about our own little problems. But Toronto actress Mia Kirshner travelled to four desperate parts of the world to bring back the tales of the most vulnerable people, Gayle MacDonald writes
For the past seven years, Toronto actress Mia Kirshner has been obsessed with self-financing and publishing her debut book, I Live Here, a harrowing tribute to the overlooked victims of war, corrupt governments and crippling disease.
“I worked on the book – all the time,” says Kirshner, a gorgeous, dark-haired slip of a thing who started acting as an extra in low-budget television and saw her career take off after nailing roles in Love & Human Remains and Exotica.
“I drove my friends and family insane because they said it’s all I talked about. I know it’s true, and I’m sure, very annoying to be around. But it literally has been an odyssey, an obsession for me. Because once I saw how many people have sacrificed so much … well, I became obsessed,” she says with a smile.
Kirshner says all this while in town last week to present her so-called paper documentary at the International Festival of Authors. The 33-year-old explains that she became fixated with the idea of the four-part book – which took the actress and many collaborators to some of the most ravaged places in Chechnya, Myanmar, Juarez, Mexico, and Malawi – after 9/11.
Mia on Causecast.org
Posted on: October 07, 2008 | Filed under: I Live Here, Media Alerts | 0 Comments
Please visit Causecast.org to read Mia’s blog entries with even more information about ‘I Live Here’ including photos, trailers and also the new I Live Here Foundation that she has set up in order to help fund creative writing programs in the areas she and her partners have visited. If you would like to donate to the foundation, you can do so through Causecast.org or through the official I Live Here website.
Thank you to Ryan at causecast.org for making this post possible.
Please be advised that the below trailers for the book contain some disturbing images and should be viewed with caution.
Mia article in Glamour – September 2008
Posted on: August 13, 2008 | Filed under: I Live Here, Interviews, Media Alerts | 0 Comments
There is a 2 page article in the September 2008 issue of Glamour magazine (Penelope Cruz on the cover) about Mia and her work on her book I Live Here. I picked it up yesterday and it’s a really great, though rather short, read and includes photos and artwork from the book. I will have scans available as soon as I can, though it may be a little while as I am having some issues with my scanner and I’m getting ready to move in a couple of weeks.
Thanks to Johanna for the heads up on this. 
SheKnows ‘Miss Conception’ clip
Posted on: June 10, 2008 | Filed under: Media Alerts, Miss Conception | 0 Comments
This is the first film clip I’ve seen that features Mia, so I thought I’d post it here for you guys. I know the film hasn’t gotten the greatest reviews ever, but Mia and Heather look utterly adorable and I’m excited to see them in a project together.
Source: SheKnows.com
‘Miss Conception’ Trailer
Posted on: April 29, 2008 | Filed under: Film News, Media Alerts, Miss Conception | 4 Comments
Click here to watch it at traileraddict.com.
Mia in Diva magazine
Posted on: April 21, 2008 | Filed under: Media Alerts | 3 Comments
Mia is featured in the May 2008 issue of Diva magazine (see excerpt below). I’ll be adding some scans that Mifunes sent in a little later today.
Mia Kirshner: Jenny’s nice sideAs The L Word’s author Jenny Schecter, she’s the girl we love to hate. But as DIVA found out, off-screen Mia Kirshner is her character’s antithesis. Interview by IVANA SLOANE
Let’s face it, poor old Jenny didn’t have much going for her from the start. After she broke the lovely Marina’s heart – and lied about cheating on her boyfriend, Tim – in Season One, she decided she’d become an author, and got all pretentious.
In Season Four we watched our troubled heroine wreak revenge on a literary critic by seducing her veterinarian girlfriend. Don’t get us started on the dog she adopted and had put down by the vet in question. Put simply, Schecter is no people-pleaser, and it’s precisely because of this that actress Mia Kirshner is drawn to her.
Kirshner positively laps up the challenge of playing the most hated lesbian character since Vinegar Tits on Prisoner: Cell Block H, and for that we salute her. But there’s more: when she’s not busy on the set in Vancouver, Mia is working on a book to raise awareness of misplaced peoples from the Far East, the profits from which she plans to donate to Amnesty International. When we asked her her favourite charity, in a heartbeat she told us it was Médecins Sans Frontièrs. So big up to Ms Mia: feminist, philanthropist and cover star.
Scan help
Posted on: March 12, 2008 | Filed under: Media Alerts | 2 Comments
Mifunes recently emailed me and mentioned that Mia is supposed to be featured in the March 2008 issue of Vogue, but neither of us are sure of which country’s Vogue this might be. I’ve looked in the US one, have searched eBay and Google as well, but have yet to find out if this the correct issue or from what country it might be. If any of you know and could either let me know which version to look for or send in scans (full credit will be given), I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Italian Vogue Scans
Posted on: October 10, 2007 | Filed under: Media Alerts | 8 Comments
A huge thanks goes out to Johanna for sending in scans of Mia from the February 2007 issue of Vogue Italia. Click here or on the images below to view the scans.
The L Word Season 4 on DVD
Posted on: September 11, 2007 | Filed under: Media Alerts, Television News, The L Word | 1 Comment
The L Word Season 4 will be released on DVD on October 23, 2007 and can be pre-ordered through Amazon.com for $36.39.