Thanks to one of the great teachers that I am working with at Sigsbee Charter School I learned about the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. The festival is really a contest that is organized by YA author James Kennedy. The purpose of the contest is to encourage students to create short videos based on Newbery-winning books. The point isn’t to have students create book reviews or book trailers but to actually tell the story of the book through video. A collection of the best videos of previous years’ festivals can be seen here. Two of the videos in that collection are embedded below.
Entries into The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival will be accepted until January 11, 2019. Read the submission rules and guidelines here.
Applications for Education
If you have done book trailer projects with your students and you’re ready to take a different approach to making videos, consider having students write and produce entries for The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival.
