The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which young filmmakers create movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about 90 seconds. We are now entering our ninth year!
For example, check out the video above, a 90-second version of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1963 Newbery Medal winner, A Wrinkle in Time. Watch this and many more of the most popular 90-Second Newbery videos here.
We feature the best submissions at annual screenings in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, Tacoma WA, Rochester NY, Oakland CA, Ogden UT, Salem OR, Boulder CO, and other cities—co-hosted by founder James Kennedy (author of the young-adult fantasy The Order of Odd-Fish) and other award-winning children’s authors.
The general deadline for next year’s 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is January 10, 2020. But you can turn your movies in at any time, and I hope you do!
Complete rules and details about the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival can be found here. Our press kit can be found here.
Want to bring the 90-Second Newbery to your town? Contact James at james@90secondnewbery.com
