New Releases!
FICTION
Albert, Susan Wittig– The Darling Dahlias and the Cumumber Tree
Barr, Nevada - Burn Brown, Dale – Executive Intent Brown, Sandra – Tough Customer Burke, James – The Glass Rainbow
Child, Lee – 61 Hours Clark, Mary Higgins - The Shadow of Your Smile Connolly, John - The Whisperers Cook, Robin- Cure Coulter, Catherine - Whiplash Cussler, Clive – The Spy Cussler, Clive – Lost Empire Deaver, Jeffery - The Burning Wire Demille, Nelson – The Lion Deveraux, Jude - Scarlet Nights Evanovich, Janet – Sizzling Sixteen Forsyth, Frederick - The Cobra Franzem, Jonathan – Freedom Gardner, Lisa - Live to Tell Garlock, Dorothy – Stay A Little Longer Gerritsen, Tess - Ice Cold Gregory, Philippa - The Red Queen Griffin, W.E.B. - The Vigilantes Gross, Andrew - Reckless Hiaasen, Carl – Star Island Howard, Linda – Veil of Night Jackson, Lisa – Without Mercy Johansen, Iris – Shadow Zone Kellerman, Faye – Hangman Kellerman, Jonathan- Deception Larsson, Stieg - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Lippman, Laura – I'd Know You Anywhere Lowell, Elizabeth - Death Echo Lustbader, Eric Van - Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Objective Macomber, Debbie - Hannah's List Margolin, Phillip - Supreme Justice Martini, Steve - The Rule of Nine Michaels, Fern – Cross Roads Mitchell, David – The Thousand Autums of Jacob De Zoet Parker, Robert - Blue-Eyed Devil Patterson, James – The Postcard Killers Patterson, James – Private Patterson, Richard North – In The Name of Honor Pearson, Ridley - In Harm's Way Preston, Douglas & Child - Fever Dream Reichs, Kathy - Spider Bones Robards, Karen – Shattered Roberts, Nora – Savor the Moment Roberts, Nora - The Search Sandford, John – Storm Prey Silva, Daniel - The Rembrandt Affair Smith, Martin Cruz – Three Stations Steel, Danielle – Family Ties Tanenbaum, Robert - Betrayal Thor, Brad - Foreign Influence Turow, Scott – Innocent Weiner, Jennifer - Fly Away Home White, Stephen - The Last Lie Wiesel, Elie - The Sonderberg Case Woods, Stuart – Lucid Intervals
NON-FICTION
Byrne, Rhonda - The Power Junger, Sebastian - War Morton, Andrew – Angelina
Winner of the Babe Stewart Short Film Contest!
Second Annual Babe Stewart Short Film Contest
The second annual Babe Stewart Short Film contest was held last Thursday, April 29, at the Palace Theatre in Spooner. This event is sponsored by the Spooner Memorial Library, and it never fails to entertain its audience.
It’s impossible to walk away from the event not feeling some awe at the hard work and creativity of the local talent who go to lengths making their films (and who also seem to have a good time making the entries).
This year’s winners are as follows:
For Best Director, the award went to Kaitlin Randolph of Drummond for her mockumentary When One Door Opens. This short film looks closely at the “addiction” of opening doors for people on a college campus and how doing so leads a few people to over-think what the simple act means to them. It was a clever film that flowed together well.
Best Cinematography went to Matt Vinopal and Jon Ambrose for their film Shock. This is an action film filled with mystery, fight scenes and a chase. The filming shoots from above, from below, and in a circular fashion, making the film interesting to view.
Best Supporting Actor went to Zeb Butterfield in the film The Making of Greatness. Butterfield is quite good; his comedic timing is spot-on in nearly all his scenes.
And drum roll, please … the overall winner of the Best Short Film and an award of $150 went to Andrew Kirov for The Making of Greatness. This short film exemplifies his apparently humiliating defeat at last year’s Babe Stewart Short Film Contest and how this year he set out to make an amazing film.
The audience follows him and his crew as they gather cast members and brainstorm ideas for the film. There is also a subplot of a guileless actress who pays a young child to pretend to be terminally ill so she can be in Kirov’s film. The film ends on the very evening of the 2010 awards as Kirov is nervously awaiting the results of the award.
As it turns out, Kirov didn’t need to be nervous at all.
Let me end by saying that this is an event that more people should participate in and attend.
Get your video cameras out and go tell a story. Use some of our amazing local talent and work this upcoming year on editing your own short film. It’s an experience I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.