NORWAY – Norway-Paris Cable TV announced a marathon showing of the SAD 17 M’iMovie films from Friday to Sunday.

The 27 films produced by students and staff run for more than two hours each and will be shown five times, beginning every fourth hour after the first showing at noon on Friday.

That same cycle will repeat starting at noon on Saturday.

Cara Maloney, one of the film festival’s directors, said 107 students from kindergarten through 12th-grade and some staff worked on making the 27 films that varied from being entertaining to educational to informative.

A couple of the award winners to to be shown are:

“Invasion of the Lemurs,” which won best of the festival award. This is a creation of sophomores Joe Merrill and Seth Briggs, the writers, and is performed in French.

It tells the tale of an evil scientist and how he was making evil lemurs to take over the world.

“A documentary on the life of Kate Starbird,” a horticulturist and philanthropist from the early 1900s, won the Directors’ Special Award.

Other films touch on a variety of eclectic issues such as an adult education profile of students taking a karate class; how to build a computer, a step-by-step ‘how to’ from installation of a mother board to connecting the wires; and a profile of snowboard riders performing freestyle maneuvers.

The festival was named after Apple software used to edit movies.

The festival began when Directors Richard McIntosh, technology assistant at the high school; Nancy Hohmann, districtwide gifted and talented teacher; Luba Greene, a fourth-grade teacher at Waterford Memorial School; and Maloney, special education teacher at the high school, decided to do something with the 17 digital cameras Apple computer gave the district two years ago after a large purchase of computer equipment.