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90 Second Newbery Festival Gala | Brookline Village Library
April 30, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
FreeThe BOSTON AREA screening of the sixth annual 90-Second Newbery Film Festival! 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).
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.
Come to the Brookline Village Library to watch the best of this year’s submissions and enjoy comedy skits by award-winning children’s authors.
Check out this video of last year’s winning 90 second film “Last Stop on Market Street” (Matthew de la Pena) by Eian Sinclair, Age 10
This program is supported in part by a grant from the Brookline Commission for the Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.