The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is finally coming to the Boston area on Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 2pm at the Brookline Library.

We want you to help us make a movie to enter into the festival! We'll be filming at the library over 4 evenings--December 12-13 and December 19-20 from 6p-7p each night. (The deadline for entry to the festival is January 7, 2017.)

We're looking for kids from 5th grade to 12th grade who are interested in acting, filming, or set design. We already have a funny script written, so all you need to do is show up on those evenings.

"The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is an annual video contest in which young filmmakers create weird short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books in about a minute and a half. Anyone can enter!"

The screening will be hosted by author James Kennedy (The Order of Odd-Fish) and National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson (Feed, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, and Symphony for the City of the Dead) and Newbery Medal and Honor winner Jack Gantos (Dead End in Norvelt, Joey Pigza Loses Control).