A couple weeks ago, the family film I wrote and directed, The No-Sit List, won an award at the Kids First! Film Festival.   I didn’t have this blog then, so I’m announcing it now.  Hey, the whole point of awards is announcing them!

The Kids First! Film Festival is run by the Coalition for Quality Children’s Media.  I’m pretty sure it claims the be the biggest or oldest or best-attended or something children’s film festival in the country, world, or universe. 

The No-Sit List won for “Best Independent Feature, Ages 5-8″.  So that’s kind of cool.  You can see a complete list of winners at the Kids First! 2009 Winners Page.

Congrats to everyone in the cast and crew who worked so hard to make he movie great!

So… even though The No-Sit List still hasn’t been released in the US, I just saw the French DVD had come out from Sony Home Entertainment.  (Check the logo on the DVD box spine below.)

A little lesson for all you aspiring directors out there.  I found out about the release when someone sent me a link to the French Amazon.com page.

I do love the title, by the way.  <<Danny la terreur>>.  And the synopsis just sounds classier in French: Danny, un adorable petit garçon de 7 ans, a des parents très occupés. Il est donc tous les soirs gardé par une nounou. Pour retrouver une vraie vie de famille, Danny va apprendre à être méchant et à devenir la terreur des baby-sitters…

If anyone sees a copy, I’d love to hear how it plays in French.  And all you American kids, guess you have to wait a few more months.

Here’s the trailer for The No-Sit List.

The No-Sit List trailer on YouTube.

My second feature film is The No-Sit List. It’s a family film starring Trenton Rogers, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace-Stone, Rico Rodriguez, Chris Cleveland, Kate Orsini, and Brittany Finamore.

The story is about a boy Danny Parker whose parents must leave him with babysitters too often. He learns about the “no-sit list” the list of kids who are too bad for anyone to babysit for. He thinks that if he can just get on that list, his parents will have to spend more time with him. But Danny’s a good kid who’ll have to learn how to be bad.

Since we filmed the movie, the young stars went on to a lot of success on other things. Trenton appeared in a bunch of films, including the opening of He’s Just Not That Into You. Rico is now on ABC’s series, “Modern Family.”

Here’s the trailer from Entry Level.