{"id":21214,"date":"2011-08-22T06:47:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21214"},"modified":"2011-08-21T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T11:01:18","slug":"call-out-to-jet-alums-for-90-second-newbery-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/22\/call-out-to-jet-alums-for-90-second-newbery-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Call out to JET alums for submissions to the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Kennedy<\/a> (Nara-ken, 2004-06)<\/strong>, author of the acclaimed young adult novel The Order of Odd-Fish<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, will be curating the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival<\/a><\/strong> with the New York Public Library around November 5 and with the Harold Washington Library in Chicago around November 16.\u00a0 And he has a special request for JET alumni who are into film making:<\/p>\n

There are some Newberry award winners that are about Japan and the Japanese, and nobody has done a 90-Second Newbery film of them yet!<\/p>\n

Off the top of my head, I can think of: <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>(1) Heart of a Samurai<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>by Margi Preus, which is about John Manjiro (2011 Honor Winner)<\/p>\n

(2) Kira-Kira<\/strong><\/em><\/a> by Cynthia Kadohata, which is about WWII Japanese-American experience (2005 Medal Winner).<\/p>\n

(3) Commodore Perry In the Land of the Shogun<\/em><\/a> <\/strong>by Rhoda Blumberg. (1986 Honor Winner)<\/p>\n

So, as for JET alumni:<\/p>\n

(1) I’d love to put the call out to the JET alumni community, which surely must include filmmakers, to make 90-second films based on those books for the film festival. (It would be even better if they were totally in Japanese, with subtitles!)<\/p>\n

(2) The film festival at the NYPL on November 5 will be not only films, but also live acts between the films — a kind of cabaret atmosphere — live 90-second Newbery reenactments, or songs, etc.\u00a0 So this is also a call out to any arts groups \/ comedy teams \/ bands \/ etc. who would be interested in doing something as a between-film live segment for the 90-Second Newbery film festival?<\/p>\n

Here’s a little more info from James about the 90-Second Newbery Festival:<\/p>\n

I’m doing this film festival in conjunction with the New York Public Library and the Chicago Public Library. Participants (of any age) are challenged to make a video that compresses the entire story<\/em> of a Newbery award winning book into 90 seconds or less (no book trailers!) To check out the pretty funny inaugural entry — a 90-second Wrinkle in Time<\/em> — and read the contest rules, click here:<\/p>\n