Calling All Filmmakers

Attention children’s book fans and amateur filmmakers: Can you make a video that compresses the story of a Newbery Award-winning book into 90 seconds or less?

Author James Kennedy and the New York Public Library are co-sponsoring the 90-Second Newbery Video Contest, which will culminate in “a star-studded 90-Second Newbery Film Festival at the New York Public Library in Fall of 2011,” Kennedy wrote on his website. For an entertaining sample, check out the abbreviated version of Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time on the website.