{"id":18,"date":"2008-09-11T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T21:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/and-the-winner-is\/"},"modified":"2008-09-11T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T22:14:01","slug":"and-the-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2008\/and-the-winner-is\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"215\" height=\"215\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/kidsfirst\/images\/db\/titles\/207420.jpg\" \/>Our 9th Annual KIDS FIRST! Best Day and Awards Celebration is less than a month away. As always, students are winning lots of awards! Elementary, Middle, High and College students all submit films to our KIDS FIRST! Film Festival and, annually we recognize the &#8220;best of the best.&#8221; It has been my pleasure to work with all these young producers year round and I look forward to seeing them recognized as much as anyone. Among the nominees are Middle School students from the Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, CA and Peter Gundling, now in Middle School, who has been the recipient of our highest award for<br \/>\nthe past two years and is once again among the nominees.<\/p>\n<p>I am so proud of these young people who are part of our KIDS FIRST! family and offer them my most sincere congratulations as a nominee. They remind us all that &#8220;you are never too young, and hopefully never too old, to follow your dream and believe in your abilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Pictured above: Stillwaters, by Andrew Ford, nominated in the category: Student Production Short Short, College)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a list of all the 2008 nominees, visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/filmfestival\/KFB2008\/Nominees.html\">nominee page<\/a>. For details on KIDS FIRST! Best Day and Awards Celebration, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/filmfestival\/KFBest2008.html\">KFBest2008.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join us in acknowledging the work of these young filmmakers who make the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival the premier source for outstanding films for and by children. Keep &#8217;em coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our 9th Annual KIDS FIRST! Best Day and Awards Celebration is less than a month away. As always, students are winning lots of awards! Elementary, Middle, High and College students all submit films to our KIDS FIRST! Film Festival and, annually we recognize the &#8220;best of the best.&#8221; It has been my pleasure to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jury-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}