2020 San Diego International Kids Film Festival-Children Made Films

100% GIRL Taiwan | 4min Children-Made | Animation Director: Chen Liangyu The difference between men and women creates the most difficult battlefield in the world. Magical kitchen appliances try to do a little magic to fight for peaceful and sweet life.     ALIEN Hong Kong | 3min Children-Made | Drama Director: Ip Kan Chan, Hong Yu Lai, Nok Man Wong, Wai Ho Yeung An alien is on the way home, but his spaceship has no enough energy, so he lands on a planet. After that, he found that he can charge the battery by using the cakes energy ,so he charge his spaceship. Suddenly he meet a boy, and he is the owner of all houses in this planet..   AN UNUSUAL SUNDAY United States | 3min Children-Made | Drama Director: Abhi Sukhdial A dance-loving, TV-binging robot, Detective Sphero, is called in on his day off to solve a very strange crime.     CONNOR’S BRICK WALL Ireland | 9min Children-Made | Drama Director: Ewan Pipe From the award-winning director and screenwriter of What Archie Did comes Connor's Brick Wall. In this all-new drama, Connor, a twelve-year-old boy, is being bullied by his peers. He is depressed and lonely and no one will listen to him. Suddenly, Connor hits tragedy and his world turns upside down. Can Connor resolve the situation? And what is it that causes Connor so much pain?   CUTIE AND LYLA United States |2 min Children-Made | Drama Director: April Yu This is a 3 kids' adventure story     GIRLS SHOULD STAY AT HOME India| 10min Children-Made | Drama Director: Neel Menon A look at how 3 women in Mumbai, India have battled adversity to hold their own.   GO GO MASK GIRL Taiwan| 10min Children-Made | Animation Director: Public Television Service Taiwan Adults are used to hiding themselves behind different masks when facing different people. They pretend to be nice to the people they don't like; they set different standards for themselves and others; they treat children from other families better… What will happen if kids put on their parent's masks? Is it necessary for everyone to live with masks?     I AM DANIEL, MY FIRST 11 YEARS United States | 11min Children-Made | Documentary Director: Daniel Gatto A comical documentary of my first 11 years of life   INVISIBLE INK United States | 6min Children-Made | Drama Director: Logan Marber When Emma has her friend over for a sleepover, they play with an invisible ink pen. Through a magical spell, the girl they draw with the pen comes to life and haunts Emma’s family. Emma is annoyed with her sister for being so dramatic and thinks she is lying about what she saw.     KILLING TIME United Kingdom| 10min Children-Made | Drama Director: Lola-Malini Raman-Middleton British Indian family experiencing the Covid-19 lockdown.   MIRACLE JOURNEY OF XI-LIANG-LIANG Taiwan| 10min Children-Made | Documentary Director: Public Television Service Taiwan A beach scattered with marine litter is the favorite playground for some baby sea turtles. A sea turtle named Liang-Liang got caught by a bird. To rescue his best friend, Xi-Liang-Liang rushes to the deep sea. Does Xi-Liang-Liang know that he’s about to embark on an adventure to an extremely dangerous world? Can Liang-Liang safely get back to his best friend? Let’s find out more.     MOBILE FOLKTALES Taiwan| 10min Children-Made | Animation Director: Public Television Service Taiwan For five days a year, it seems that the Heaven sends down many magnificent story floats to our town to parade. There are fairies, even ancient historical figures, as if they travel though time and space. Each story float showcases a folktale of merits, just like a moving story book. What's more, it's raining candy during the parade!   MONSTER IN THE UNDERGROUND PIPELINE Taiwan| 10min Children-Made | Animation Director: Public Television Service Taiwan A monster wanders into an amusement park. The magician discovers that the monster’s fart can be used for floating balloon, so he hides the monster in the underground pipeline and exploits it for making balloons. However, the monster is getting bigger and bigger, and the pipeline can no longer hold it..     PLAYERS United Kingdom | 3min Children-Made | Drama Director: Ava Bounds A special girl, a cigar box, a dead bird. Today Thea adds a new player to her collection.   ROGER THE CAT United States | 3min Children-Made | Drama Director: Audrey Guerrero When a mysterious cat appears, Roger learns to believe in himself.     RUNAWAY United States | 7min Children-Made | Drama Director: Michelle Tang Jackie is going to run away from home. She plans for everything. Well, almost everything   THE BOX United States | 2min Children-Made | Drama Director: Toko Ryu The Box is a short story about a girl, who is running down the street, when she sees a small gray box. She decides to pick it up, takes it home and opens it, then      THE BUTLER AND THE BALL Canada | 12min Children-Made | Drama Director: Andrew Chan-Possemato An urban fairy tale about a lonely boy who enters a contest to become the new butler of a grieving, reclusive singer; the first film by eight-year-old writer/director Andrew Chan-Possemato.   THE COSMOSPENGUIN IN THE OPERA Austria | 10 min Children-Made | Drama Director: Luca Potskhishvili On the planet Jupiter exist neither opera house nor opera singer! On planet Earth are many opera houses and opera singers in overabundance. Many are no longer needed. The Cosmospenguin loves the opera and wants to help the opera singers who were kicked out. He comes to Earth. Will the Cosmospenguin manage to build an opera and win singers for Opera in Jupiter?       THE ESCORT United Kingdom | 6min Children-Made | Drama Director: Ava Bounds In a landscape where global warming is having severe detrimental effects around the world, a man is returning to his daughter with her medicine undetected until he meets a companion on his journey with disastrous consequences.   THE LOST ADVENTURE IN A CLAW MACHINE Taiwan| 10min Children-Made | Documentary Director: Public Television Service Taiwan Claw machine are super popular in Taiwan. So many young people, kids and their parents, and even their grandparents, are obsessed with claw machines. Why do players keep feeding the claw machines with coins hoping to win the prize they do not really need? We decided to explore the black magic of claw machine fever first-handed at our own risk of becoming claw machine addicts.     THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LINE United States | 9min Children-Made | Drama Director: Mia Thomas, Will Gesci An allegory about racism and prejudice told through the lens of a children's fairy tale. Based on a short story, The Other Side of the Line was adapted for the screen, shot and edited by kids ages 8-17 at Lakewood Young Filmmakers Academy and tells the tale of two neighboring towns separated by a blue line that no one ever dares to cross. Until the children of the feuding towns change all of that forever   THE QUARANTINE RAG United States | 1min Children-Made | Drama Director: Charlotte Quintanar In a world where nothing is normal, a young girl finds herself in the midst of a battle between order and chaos. This joyful film gives us a look into what it’s like to be a kid during a global pandemic, and their resilience to overcome any foe.     THE SECRET OF THE RAINFOREST Denmark | 16min Children-Made | Drama Director: Rikke Hallund The story is based on an old myth telling the story about the birth of the world's largest river - the Amazon river. This movie is made together with kids from the Kukama tribe in Santo Tomas in Peru. life. The issues are all presented through a stop-motion, paper style of animation.   VOODOO United States | 2min Children-Made | Drama Director: Audrey Linh Thacher A greedy boy refuses to share his Cafe du Monde beignets with his sister and suffers the consequences in Voodoo City.