90-Second Newbery Films from Minnesota Students

State Library Services hosted the inaugural Minnesota 90-Second Newbery Film Festival this winter. The Festival relies on video submissions from kid filmmakers that “tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in 90 seconds or less.” You can see all of the Minnesota submissions via this State Library Services webpage. The culmination of the festival was a screening of submissions at Hennepin County’s Central Library on February 28^th. The founder of the film festival, James Kennedy, wrote a recap of the screening including several of his favorite films. If you want creative, silly, charming, and very short recaps of titles like Holes, Shiloh, My Father’s Dragon, and others, you’ll find them nowhere else. You can learn more about how to participate at the 90-Second Newbery website.