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Churchill High School film students picked up several awards at the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival. An awards ceremony was held at the Tobin Center on Saturday, April 2, and was presented by BiblioTech and H-E-B. The awards ceremony was hosted by by Chicago author and contest founder, James Kennedy.
The 90-Second Newbery Film Festival is a video contest in which kid filmmakers are challenged to create movies that tell the entire stories of award-winning Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor books in about 90 seconds. Students from all over San Antonio could craft their videos with music, live-action, illustration, stop motion or any media they chose. The results were ingenious, artistic and often hilarious.
Three films by Churchill students in Robin Morriss’ class were nominated for eight awards. They recreated the Newbery books Holes, The Crossover and The One and Only Ivan.
Holes was directed by Collin Read and retold the book as a Judge Judy episode. It was nominated for Best Sound, Best Costume, Best Visual Effects and won for Best Book Adaptation.
The Crossover was directed by Sam Sauceo and won for Best Visual Effects.
The One and Only Ivan was directed by Josh Davis. It was nominated for Best Sound, Best Cinematography and Best Film. Josh recreated his as a silent black and white film with animal sound effects.
Students who helped with filming, acting and producing the videos were Ian Rios, Ben Voorhies and Antonio de Los Santos.
