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    

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.