The Boxtrolls Cardboard Challenge Contest To Be Held This Weekend

The Imagination Foundation, creators of the Global Cardboard Challenge, are partnering with the 3D stop motion film “The Boxtrolls” to present The Boxtrolls Cardboard Challenge Contest this weekend.

More FM will host the contest at the Franklin Mills Mall on Sept. 21, from noon to 3 p.m.

The Challenge, inspired by the documentary “Caine’s Arcade,” is a celebration of children’s creativity and challenges kids to create their own projects out of cardboard and other recycled material using only their imaginations. The contest, which runs through September, will feature “What’s in the Box?”-themed packages for winners.

“The Boxtrolls,” which will be released nationwide by Focus Features on Sept. 26, is a new stop motion film from LAIKA, the creators of “Coraline” and “ParaNorman”. Based on the book “Here Be Monsters!” by Alan Snow, it follows the adventures of the film’s namesake creatures—a quirky bunch of mischievous inventors—who raise a human boy named Eggs. The movie was directed by Anthony Stacchi and Graham Annable and stars Isaac Hempstead Wright, Ben Kingsley and Elle Fanning.