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QUIET MOUSE
JOHN DICKSON
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 8-12
Description - With the help of his loyal but mischievous best friend, an introspective and sensitive nine-year-old with selective mutism struggles to find his voice in a world where he is constantly misunderstood and overlooked.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-12
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

AMERICAN SUPERMARKET
SAGE DRAKE
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 10-16
Description - A short experimental film, working as an essential worker, the largest supermarket in Northern California. Took pictures with a cell phone as a photo diary during the coronavirus crisis.
Runtime: 2 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

SWIMSUIT SEASON, THE
ANTONINO VALVO
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGE 7-18
Description - Ayman, an overweight boy, is determined to face his insecurities by spending a day in a public pool. But the "swimsuit proof" will be full of little obstacles that will put the boy in trouble.
Runtime: 5 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 7-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

DREAM STORE
PAWEL OLEARCZYK
Series: FOREIGN INDIE SHORT, AGE 10-18
Description - Kacper visits the Dream Store for his 10th birthday. From Poland
Runtime: 25 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

MY TAGALONG
JERRY WANG
Series: FOREIGH STUDENT SHORT, AGES 8-18
Description - A story about two Gemini brothers' journey on the earth. The Older brother wants to enjoy the trip himself, but his younger brother always follows him and makes a lot of troubles.
Runtime: 7 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

MEHNDI & ME
LAURA P. VALTORTA
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 8-18
Description - A lawyer living in South Carolina discovers camaraderie through henna tattoos.
Runtime: 7 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

INTRUDERS - INTRUSOS
SOCIEDAD ACTORAL HISPANOAMERICANA
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 10-16
Description - This short film explores values ??such as teamwork, friendship, solidarity, equality and equity. A group of students from an arts school organize and review pending projects for the production of a short film that represents their final cycle work and, with it, the opportunity to advance to the next grade. The day of filming, already at the house that will be a filming location and while the equipment, props and so on go down, someone watches them from the inside. No one in the group realizes that they are being watched, much less the experience that awaits them.
Runtime: 18 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

FOX TALES, SUMMER NIGHT
DARRAN KUAH
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 3-7
Description - Little Snow is gifted with a magical powers to conjure up magic by writing with her tails! But being a playful cub, she will get into all sorts of silly troubles and adventure because of it!
Runtime: 6 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 3-7
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

QUARANTEENED, A VIRTUAL MUSICAL
CORI ANNE LAEMMEL
Series: INDIE FEATURE, AGES 11-18
Description - When literally everything is cancelled, how do we connect? Quaranteened: A Virtual Musical is an all new virtual musical from The Theater Bug, in partnership with MA2LA. Quaranteened was written by all teen writers and recorded entirely from home and produced remotely. The show features the intertwined stories of a group of teenagers trying to stay connected in a world asking them to isolate themselves. It is based on the moment we are living in, told across Zoom classes, FaceTime, TikToks and texts.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 11-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

DRONYA'S ARTIFICES
KATERINA BALABAY
Series: INDIE FEATURE, AGES 8-18
Description - An eleven-years old boy Dronya most of all wants to win the competition of young programmers and go for education in the well-known IT-company. But parents sent Dronya to the summer camp, where the contest for a title of the best squad is taking place. Dronya and his new friends are challenged ahead a not easy task - to win the competition.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

VOODOO
AUDREY LINH THACHER
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10 - 16
Description - A greedy boy refuses to share his Cafe du Monde beignets with his sister and suffers the consequences in Voodoo City.
Runtime: 2 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-16
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

PIRATE AND A PRINCESS, A
MARK KELLY
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 8-18
Description - While evading bloodthirsty rivals, an Irish pirate captain with a multinational pirate crew rescue a shipwrecked maiden, only to find she's Spanish royalty with deadly political enemies.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

WINTER WOLVES, THE
MARK KELLY
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 10-18
Description - A pack of wolves tell their cubs about their adventurous and sometimes tragic family story, teaching them lessons about life, family and love.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

LAPIS DE LUMINE
KALEE DEHAMER
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 8-18
Description - A young herbalist sets out on her own to take up the family business with the help of a magical family heirloom. When the necklace is stolen, she gives chase, but what she finds at the end of her pursuit is not what she was expecting...is she prepared to handle it?
Runtime: 8 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

MAGIC CAMERA
RODNEY S. ROBINSON
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 8-15
Description - A young girl struggles to come to terms with her grandmother's death. Through the use of her imagination and an old camera she seeks to hold on to precious memories and hopes to bridge the emotional gap that exists between her and her mother.
Runtime: 14 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-15
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

OUR SHOT
SAGE DRAKE
Series: DOCUMENTARY, AGES 7 - 18
Description - Filmmaker Sage Christian Drake shares his feelings and passion for his latest experimental film on life appreciation and the limited time that we all carry.
Runtime: 6 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 7-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

STRONG SURVIVE, THE
RICHARD BROOKS
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 10-18
Description - After the sudden death of their mother, a 12-year-old boy and his sister have to move in with their estranged father and readjust to their new life.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

YARNE
ANDREW KRAKOWER
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 10-18
Description - The money earned by 11-year-olds Sonam and Tashi for doing prayers is only enough to share one small Coke. Sonam is lucky to even get a sip before Tashi, the monastery bully, drinks the entire bottle. Yarne is an annual six-week period when Buddhist monks remain within the monastery grounds for focused study and practice, yet for child monks, it's more like house arrest. Tired of wasting his money, Sonam decides to save up every rupee he earns during Yarne to buy a soccer ball, but first he will have to stand up to Tashi.
Runtime: 15 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

WITHOUT A MAP
NACHO ROS
Series: FOREIGN INDIE SHORT, AGES 13-18
Description - Rebeca is a teenager who plans to jump into the void; She used to be a happy girl, but just like Alice in Wonderland, one day she was lost in an unpredictable world. Without north and without references it seems very complex to find a way back.
Runtime: 19 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 13-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

DAYS WE SHARE, THE
CHANTAL GABRIEL
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10 - 18
Description - A passive, high school artist's friendship with her bold but insecure best friend becomes more strained when her best friend has other ideas on how they should adjust to their first year of high school together.
Runtime: 16 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

RED BALLOON
AVI FEDERGREEN
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 9-18
Description - A devoted father overcome with despair over his young son's illness learns that true freedom comes from love and letting go.
Runtime: 10 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 9-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

PASSION MAKES SCHOOL
ALFONSO CACCIOLA
Series: FOREIGN FEATURE, AGES 10-18
Description - Ivan is a 12 year old boy who wants to make a documentary. He is looking for a topic that involves him and he interviews his classmates to find it. When spring arrives he is attracted by the beauty of nature and, with his video, he wants to participate in a competition. But together with his school he is involved in a race where you have to ride on static bikes to produce clean energy. In the classroom they talk about environmental crises and energy problems. During the holidays Ivan is more attentive to environmental problems and when he goes to the sea he tries to clean up a beach full of plastic. Back in school, he no longer thinks about competitions and discovers the importance of teamwork. There is no time to lose: the challenge for him and for the other kids is to believe in a possible solution for a problem that affects everyone but, above all, their future.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

DOLPHIN ISLAND
SHAKED BERENSON
Series: INDIE FEATURE, AGES 7-18
Description - After losing her parents, fourteen-year-old Annabel lives with her fisherman grandfather on a Caribbean island paradise. She is surrounded by an extended family of loving, but quirky, oddballs and her best friend, a dolphin named Mitzy. Everything changes when her maternal grandparents arrive with a shifty lawyer to bring her back to New York. It's up to Annabel and Mitzy to save the day and prove that love conquers all.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 7-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

SITTER, THE
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 5-18
Description - A babysitter accidentally accepts a sitting job for a dog. Kids can be a nightmare, but so can pets...
Runtime: 6 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

X MARKS THE SPOT
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 8-13
Description - A pair of air-headed adventurers embark on a treasure hunting journey as contestants on the up-and-coming survival show, "X Marks The Spot." Do they find the secret riches? Maybe.
Runtime: 4 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-13
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

LONESOME
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10-18
Description - A lonely house cleaner finds a friend in a homeless cat, making both their worlds much brighter.
Runtime: 4 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

TEST FLIGHT
EMMA FREW
Series: FOREIGN INDIE SHORT, AGES 5-12
Description - A bunny witch attempts to get her vegetable themed broomstick to fly.
Runtime: 3 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-12
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

KOBI'S TOAST
12 PING�INOS S.L
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGES 8 -18
Description - Kobi is a hungry red squirrel who wants something to eat. When some toasts POP out and surprises Kobi, he discovers his new love for toast. Kobi goes on a trip to a toast world - and he only wants more!
Runtime: 3 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

KIDS WHO SAVE THE WORLD
AGNES LESTI
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGES 5-12
Description - This live-action episode follows Zeb on a beach clean as he explains why it is important to protect our waters and sea creatures, and what we can all do to reduce plastic waste.
Runtime: 3 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-12
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

RAISING GLOBAL CITIZENS
JOEL PRIMUS
Series: DOCUMENTARY, AGES 5-10
Description - A couple with two young children decide to embark on a year long journey across the world, travelling through Argentina, Colombia, The Yukon, Vietnam and Lebanon, in hopes of learning how parenting and world travel combine, and what it means to be a citizen of the world.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-10
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

IF I COULD RUN
DONALD MILLER
Series: FEATURE, AGES 11-18
Description - A young girl in 1960 loves to run and joins a boys running team. Setbacks, bullying and ridicule face her. Finding a lost, injured dog proves out to be her strength and salvation. An inspiring, heartwarming story for the entire family!

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 11-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

EL CAPITAN & TOBY: THE RESCUE
RAIN STORY
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 5-18
Description - A super-smooth Chihuahua finds an unlikely friendship with a clumsy Cocker Spaniel who saves him from an animal shelter.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

GIRLS SHOULD STAY AT HOME
ANAND MENON
Series: FOREIGN STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10-18
Description - A look at how three women in Mumbai, India have battled adversity to hold their own.
Runtime: 10 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

JUVENILE DREAMERS, THE
JUSTIN FOREMAN
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 5-18
Description - Sometimes the dreams of our parents are passed down through generations in peculiar ways.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

HE WHO FOLLOWS
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10 - 16
Description - A boy goes out for a lonesome stroll in the woods. But somehow, even when he's just by himself, he's not alone.
Runtime: 4 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 12-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

BEAVER, FROG AND FROG BFF
COREY SNYDER
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 2-5
Description - In the paper puppet musical, Beaver Frog and Frog (BFF), two best friend frogs lose each other when their pond is drained by builders, but are brought back together by an optimistic beaver who builds a dam that saves their environment and brings back their pond. BFF sparks a curiosity in creation care by shining a light on real animals who really help each other in nature!
Runtime: 10 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 2-5
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

STAR BRIGHT
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGE 1-5
Description - Emmy (5 years old) has always dreamed of flying through the stars with his best friend GooRoo, the giant bear. A starry night, GooRoo and Emmy make acquaintance with a lovely tiny star that will help them learn about the nature of their friendship and how our dreams are sometimes closer than we thought. (From Spain)
Runtime: 7 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 2-5
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

PIECE OF ME
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGES 12-18
Description - An 8-year-old boy begins to lose his best friend, an elderly lady, as her memories fade way to Alzheimer's. Determined to help, he embarks on a journey to rekindle the memories of their friendship.
Runtime: 20 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 12-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

BOY AND THE MOUNTAIN, THE
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGE 5-18
Description - Hern�n is her dreamy child who does not do well in school. After his parents demand effort and sacrifice, so he concentrates on his studies, leaving his imagination aside. Over the years he will become a successful man and one day he will realize that his most important dream is yet to be achieved.
Runtime: 12 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 5-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

TIES
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGES 13-18
Description - There is a strong connection between parents and their child. A young woman leaves the parental home to see the world. But the world of her parents is so tightly connected with her that by leaving, she puts it at risk. It turns out that this connection can be also destructive.
Runtime: 8 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 13-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN SHORT, AGES 10-158
Description - Alba is about to do the first communion and asks Jesus Christ to kill her sick grandfather.
Runtime: 13 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

MA'II
BAYETE CHINWENDU
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 10-18
Description - Ma'ii is a folk tale, inspired by Navajo Culture, about how Coyotes first formed packs. It follows the life of a young cub, Ma'ii, as he braves the world on his own, until the day a mysterious spirit greets him.
Runtime: 3 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

ELEPHANTS PURR LIKE CATS DO
LAURA JOHNSON
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 7-18
Description - Peyton, seven years old, clumsily attempts to fend for herself, while her widowed father struggles to complete an urgent work assignment by midnight.
Runtime: 12 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 7-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

CANDLE & THE CURSE, THE
ANUJA GANPULE-SHEOREY
Series: INDIE FEATURE, AGES 7-18
Description - A Princess. A Prince. True Love's First Kiss. "You too shall lose your true love!" When a witch places a curse on the day-dreaming, stubborn Princess Savitri (Ashwini Ganpule), she must grapple with her deep-seated belief in the magical reality of the curse, which is diametrically opposed to her true love Prince Satyavan's (Miles Tagtmeyer) staunch belief in fact-based inquiry. When it turns out that the curse is real, Savitri must act quickly to save her true love - before it's too late!

With the help of her best friend, JinJie (Hayden Lam) and her fearless guide Kaeia (Darnell Rhea), Savitri must quickly journey to the Underworld to beg the Lord of Death for her true love's life back. Along the way, she learns about the plight of all the people under her rule, including the long-oppressed Forest People, and eventually learns that the curse can only be broken once she abandons the long-standing traditions of her royal family and rule fairly and justly over all peoples of the land.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 7-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

VELCRO
JASON CHERTOFF
Series: SCREENPLAY, AGES 13-18
Description - It's 2030, a decade after a novel virus killed millions of Americans. Much like after any crisis, students are learning about the past in order to prepare for the future. Under the tutelage of fourth grade teacher Fritz Jackal an important lesson is being imparted to young minds about the downfall brought about by ignorance and the need to question authority.

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 13-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: Screenplay

HE WHO FOLLOWS
LIGHT HOUSE STUDIO
Series: STUDENT SHORT, AGES 10 - 16
Description - A boy goes out for a lonesome stroll in the woods. But somehow, even when he's just by himself, he's not alone.
Runtime: 4 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 10-16
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

BEAVER, FROG, AND FROG BFF
COREY SNYDER
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 2-5
Description - In the paper puppet musical, Beaver Frog and Frog (BFF), two best friend frogs lose each other when their pond is drained by builders, but are brought back together by an optimistic beaver who builds a dam that saves their environment and brings back their pond. BFF sparks a curiosity in creation care by shining a light on real animals who really help each other in nature!
Runtime: 10 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 2-5
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

STAR BRIGHT
PROMOFEST
Series: FOREIGN INDIE SHORT, AGES 2-5
Description - Emmy (5 years old) has always dreamed of flying through the stars with his best friend GooRoo, the giant bear. A starry night, GooRoo and Emmy make acquaintance with a lovely tiny star that will help them learn about the nature of their friendship and how our dreams are sometimes closer than we thought.
Runtime: 7 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 2-5
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

PIECE OF ME
PROMOFEST
Series: INDIE SHORT, AGES 12 TO 18
Description - An 8-year-old boy begins to lose his best friend, an elderly lady, as her memories fade way to Alzheimer's. Determined to help, he embarks on a journey to rekindle the memories of their friendship.
Runtime: 20 minutes
KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 12-18
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: VIDEO

MAGIC BOOK OF CRYSTALS, THE
LOU KRUISBERGEN
Series: FOREIGN INDIE FEATURE, AGES 8-15
Description - When Mandy moves to a new place, she is attracted to a magical house. A mysterious woman named Doret lives in this house, she's the last living guardian of an age old magic book. When a sword is stolen from the house, Mandy and Doret must join forces to fight the evil. From the Netherlands with dialogue in Dutch, English subtitles

KIDS FIRST! Juror Recommended Age: 8-15
Suggested Retail Price: $
Media: FeatureFilm

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The FESTIVAL category has 2487 KIDS FIRST! endorsed titles
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