Willa: An American Snow White

produced by Tom Davenport of Davenport Films

About

91´«Ã½

The Classic Grimm tale is reset in Virginia in 1915 as innocent young Willa is forced from home by her stepmother, an aging actress obsessed with her fading beauty. Willa joins three colorful actors in a traveling medicine show and in a multi-layered, fascinating adaptation, finds Shakespeare, an apple and true love in the person of a handsome moving picture maker.

Awards Won

Title Year
carnegie.gif Andrew Carnegie Medal

91´«Ã½

The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video honors outstanding video productions for children released during the previous year. The annual award is given to the video's producer by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of 91´«Ã½, through a Carnegie endowment.
1998 - Winner(s)