90-Second Newbery

Last Friday we did the @90secondnewbery filmfest at Tacoma's Grant Center for the Expressive Arts! Great kid-made movies based on Newbery-winning books, including Dave Eggers' "The Eyes and the Impossible" done in the style of "Bohemian Rhapsody"! Recap: jameskennedy.com/2025/06/04/the…

Eian-Gabriel Sinclair recently graduated from our illustration program — at 18 years old! He first submitted to the @90secondnewbery festival at 9 years old and continued on a creative path. @iamjameskennedy tells his unique story! ➡️ brnw.ch/21wT3fq

Saturday we did the San Antonio show of the @90secondnewbery Film Festival at @TobinCenterSA! An audience of 100s of young filmmakers & friends & family WHOOPED IT UP! Our biggest show every year, thanks to @BexarBibliotech & @HebRead3. And thx to my cohost Claudia Villarreal!

Congratulations @OneCrazyRita on a terrific graphic novel adaptation of your Newbery Honor winner ONE CRAZY SUMMER. One of my favorite Newbery books! Rita is a generous gem of a friend and an amazing co-host for @90secondnewbery film festival. Get this new graphic novel now!

After a 6-year hiatus, the @90secondnewbery film festival returned to Minneapolis on Saturday! Thanks to @JacquelineMWest for being a tremendous co-host, and to all the fantastic young filmmakers! Here's to next year!

Congratulations to the Film Club for being nominated—Best Special Effects for their film “The Magic Bus,” in the 90 Second Newbery competition. 💚💚🚌💚💚@90secondnewbery @NISDLib @NISDMeadowVill @LibraryMve @BexarBibliotech

A decade ago, 9-yr-old @Artprodigyeian made his 1st movie for my @90secondnewbery Film Festival. He's made a movie for us every year since, & just *graduated* college at age 18! Here's an interview with Eian, plus all his stop-motion movies here: jameskennedy.com/2025/04/18/eia…

BOSTON! We are doing a FREE screening of the @90secondnewbery Film Festival tomorrow (Saturday 4/12) at the @BPLBoston. Kids make short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books! I'm co-hosting it with author Rebecca Wells. Tix: ticketleap.events/tickets/90seco…

Huge crowd at the @EastmanMuseum for the Rochester screening of the @90secondnewbery, hosted by me and Bruce Coville! Kids made great movies: a stop-motion TALE OF DESPEREAUX, a claymation LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY, and more! Recap: jameskennedy.com/2025/04/07/the…

Hey Rochester, New York! Join the 430+ folks who have made their FREE reservations for this Saturday's screening of the @90secondnewbery film festival at the @EastmanMuseum at 2pm! Hosted by me and legendary author Bruce Coville. Tix: ticketleap.events/tickets/90seco…

Rochester! I'm speaking tonight the @HarleySchool at 6:30 about THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH, @90secondnewbery, and more! I was interviewed about it on local TV this morning: 13wham.com/news/good-day-…

A big, happy crowd of kid filmmakers (and lovers of weird cinema) at our Chicago screening of the @90secondnewbery film festival today!

Don't miss your chance to join the Chicago screening of The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival Sunday, March 9 at 2 pm at the Harold Washington Library Center, hosted by @iamjameskennedy and @KeirGraff! Get your FREE tickets today! ticketleap.events/tickets/90seco…

The latest movie for the @90secondnewbery film festival I made with my kids and their friends: Wanda Gag's 1929 Honor Book MILLIONS OF CATS, adapted in the style of a shot-by-shot remake of Quint's U.S.S. Indianapolis speech in JAWS! Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=Ef1jb6…

Holy Frog and Toad! Saturday with @iamjameskennedy and the @90secondnewbery crew was a cinematic blast!

Get your FREE tix to my @90secondnewbery film Festival! Kids make short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books. We're coming to Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Ogden UT, Rochester NY, + Tacoma WA. Details: jameskennedy.com/2025/01/12/scr…

Next Saturday 2/22, @OneCrazyRita and I will host the 14th annual @90secondnewbery film festival at the @BKLYNlibrary (10 Grand Army Plaza). Kids make short funny movies that tell the stories of Newbery-winning books! Always lots of fun! Get your FREE tix: ticketleap.events/tickets/90seco…

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