3-Minute Masterpiece 2007

A three-minute version of “Perilous Skies” was one of 11 winners of the Seattle Times’ “Three-Minute Masterpiece” contest. It competed with over 100 entries. The Seattle Times profiled the winning films on the front page of the "Northwest Life" section of the paper. The Seattle International Film Festival screened the films at McCaw Hall on Saturday, May 26, in the same room and exactly one month after the NFFTY screening.

Here is the newspaper articles and pictures from the screening.

Newspaper Text

 

The 2007 Three-Minute Masterpiece winners

By Jack Broom, Haley Edwards, Jolayne Houtz and Lynn Jacobson

Seattle Times staffers

Time to plug in the popcorn popper, folks. Today we announce the winners of The Seattle Times' annual Three-Minute Masterpiece digital filmmaking contest.

Along with our co-sponsors Seattle Film Institute and Seattle International Film Festival, we asked you, our readers, to send us your homemade DVDs — anything suitable for a family audience that runs three minutes or less. We received more than 100 entries and were wowed, once again, by your creativity and skill.

Comedy, drama, live-action, animation: Our winners run the gamut. Two will be singled out for special prizes at a free, public screening this Saturday at SIFF (for details, see box).

Thank you again to everyone who entered. You're the butter on our popcorn.

[...]

"Perilous Skies"

"We wanted to make a war movie — but have it be a comedy," said Ben Kadie, 11, of Bellevue, a sixth-grader at Seattle Country Day School, explaining the inspiration behind this riveting black-and-white action flick. Dad Carl Kadie mans the camera and Ben's buddy Noah Hirsch plays the lead as pint-sized Lt. Pickering, ace British pilot, who fearlessly maneuvers his biplane behind German lines to destroy the factory producing the dreaded whoopee cushions that have been decimating the Royal Air Force. Boom!

[...]

Coming up

Three-Minute Masterpieces, 11 a.m. Saturday, SIFF Cinema, McCaw Hall, Seattle Center; free (general seating; first come, first served); 206-324-9996 or www.seattlefilm.org.

What's playing?

The Seattle International Film Festival starts Thursday and runs through June 17. Pick up a copy of The Seattle Times guide to the festival at any SIFF venue or Western Washington Tully's Coffee. Also see daily schedules in Northwest Life (Mondays-Thursdays and Saturdays); MovieTimes (Fridays) and Entertainment & the Arts (Sundays). For more info about SIFF, call 206-324-9996 or go to www.seattlefilm.org.

 

 

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Outside the screening, Ben gives two-thumbs up ... or is it finger guns?

We get our Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) tickets and enter.

Conner from school joins Noah and Ben.

The organizers screen Perilous Skies near the end and announce that it wins First Prize in the Youth Division.

The prize includes a class at the Seattle Film Institute. Amusingly Noah and Ben are too young to take the class until next summer, 2008. (Noah's name should be on the certificate, too, but for contest reasons, Ben was the director of record.)

The next weekend (May 27, 2007), the Seattle Times run a follow up story.

 

Three-minute winners named

The major prizewinners of The Seattle Times' 2007 Three Minute Masterpiece digital-film contest were announced Satur­day at a public screening at Seattle International Film Festival.

The grand-prize winner is Drew Christie's animated "How to Bring Democracy to the Fish."

A special youth prize was also awarded to 11-year-old Ben Kadie, for his whimsical black-and-white aviator adventure, "Perilous Skies."

Additional winners, selected from more than 100 entries were (in alphabetical order) :

·     "3,2,1 ... Movie," Martin Jarmick

·          "All the Answers," Jon Sim, Steven Hudson, Brad Walker

·     "Bon Voyage Jacques Cousteau," Danny Corey

·          "Circle of Fear," Jeff Thomas

·     "Harusame," Wayne Blackwelder

·     "Henri," Will Braden

·     "Mouse," Carl Billington

·     "Under the Noodle," Anton Bogaty

·     "What's the Scenario?" Terese Cuff

> View the winning Three-Minute masterpieces.

seattletimes. Com/Entertainment

 

  

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