2020 San Diego International Kids Film Festival-Youth Made Films

A SHOT IN THE DARK United States |6 min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Douglas Kerner A convenience store in the middle of the night. 3 locations, 5 characters. Gideon, Louise, Indy and Russell, Amelia. She is interrupted by their exit from the store. All hell breaks loose when the brothers are faced with not only a car thief, but a cop as well.     CAT United States | 5min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Madeleine White Arriving home the morning after missing his daughter's birthday, a functioning alcoholic dad runs over the family cat. In an attempt to hide it in the backyard he finds him self drowning in the pool. From his perspective at the bottom of the pool, he watches the last minutes of his life unfold.   CLOSED LOOP United States | 3min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Daniel M. Cashdan III Closed Loop is a short, animated PSA meant to spread awareness on environmental issues. Starting with the problem of excess pollution created by energy production, specifically coal, the movie moves to the issue of the lack of clean energy alternatives. From there, focus shifts to the global problem of trash ending up in the oceans and how this contributes to micro-plastics getting eaten by aquatic life.     ELSAGATE United States |9 min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Julian Green This disturbing and humorous documentary short explores the phenomenon of Elsagate, a 2017 YouTube Kids controversy. Some material may not be appropriate for children, but then again, that's the point.   JUST DESSERTS United States | 3min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Veronica Tullo 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.     MISSPERCEPTION United States | 66min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Conner Kershaw, Ryan Sadaghiani, Camden Coburn 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..   MOVIE MAYHEM United States | 5min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Daehoon Chung A bored girl downloads an app on her phone that allows her to control the genre of the film she is in.     PENCIL Hong Kong | 2min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Chun Pong Yu, Weng I Lau, Kam Hung Lee This animation is going to talk about there was a class of pencils to draw the paintings, and suddenly rubbed the rubber into the classroom, and the pencil saw the rubbing glue and tied it to the smile channel. Rubbing the rubber paintings of the paintings, the paintings are all rubbed, and the pencils are tied to the smile channel. Suddenly rubbing the rubber think of some methods. Finally, the pencil and eraser became a friend.   STATIC United States | 5min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Jackson Little A businessman under pressure working at home, finds himself facing a series of strange occurrences while waiting for his wife to come home.