Sisbro wins KIDS FIRST! Best of the Year

On December 5, 2009, KIDS FIRST! announced its Best of the Year Awards, and we are thrilled to announce that our underwater film The Riddle in a Bottle won the Best Educational Film for Ages 5 to 12! 

KIDS FIRST! is the world’s largest film festival, run by the Coalition for Quality Children's Media, a national, nonprofit organization that evaluates, rates and endorses children's feature films, DVDs, videos, CDs, TV shows and interactive media. Other 2009 Best of the Year first place winners include Elmo’s Christmas Countdown from Sesame Workshop, Ish from Weston Woods and Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

KIDS FIRST! uses volunteer, community-based juries comprising child development professionals, teachers, parents and children from diverse geographic, socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds to evaluate programs.

Now in its tenth year, the KIDS FIRST! Film Festival showcases new and classic children's films. To meet the KIDS FIRST! criteria, a film must feature no gratuitous violence, no racial or cultural bias, no inappropriate sexual behavior, no replicable unsafe behavior and no condescension towards children. The Festival partners with more than 150 venues who host screenings year round to an audience of more than one million.

Founded in 1991, the Coalition’s mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children's media. The Coalition is a voluntary collaboration comprising more than 10,000 media professionals, lobbyists, policymakers, child advocates, educators, parents and families nationwide.