Kid Flicks News

The objective of the festival is to honor excellence in student filmmaking, and it is open to all California high‐school students in grades 9 through 12.  The theater was filled for this year’s show, which opened with a conversation between Oscar-nominated directors Kathryn Bigelow and Jason Reitman ’95 (a few weeks after Bigelow had won an Oscar for her work on the film The Hurt Locker).

This year’s festival directors decided to incorporate philanthropy into the evening. Attendees were asked to bring used or new DVDs appropriate for children and donate them to Kid Flicks

The Harvard-Westlake Film Festival partnered with Kid Flicks to collect DVDs. Click here to read about the event!

The Youth Service of America honored Berni Barta with the Gladys Marinelli Coccia award at the National Service-Learning Conference in San Jose on March 26, 2010 during the State Farm Awards Ceremony. The award was founded in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her entrepreneurial career as a young girl in West Virginia and went on to become a successful businesswoman and community leader in Washington, D.C. Berni was one of two girls to win this award and was granted a $2,000 donation for Kid Flicks.

For more information visit YSA News.

We are happy to have reached a significant milestone as we work toward our goal of donating a movie library of 100 films to every Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Department in the country. As of October 7, 2009, Kid Flicks has donated 50,000 movies to 500 different hospitals in all 50 states as well as five hospitals in South Africa.

Harvard-Westlake School honors graduating senior Marni Barta for her community service leadership. Marni was awarded a $500 grant, which she used to help fund Kid Flicks.