Films at 2020 San Diego International Kids Film Festival
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 2020 San Diego International Kids Film Festival FILMS
Screening Venues: Schulman Auditorium (1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad, Ca 92011)
Senior Center( 799 Pine Avenue Carlsbad, CA 92008)
 

FEATURE
 
 FULL GAS
Israel | 113min Feature | Drama
Director: Kobi Machat
Tomer, 17, moves with his mother to a small village at the edge of the desert. Everyone is preparing for the under-18 Motocross National championship due to take place a month later, with arrogant Nimrod,17, – the village’s alpha male – the clear favorite to win. Tomer’s arrival changes the rules of the game
    GINGER’S TALE
Russian Federation | 88 min Feature | Drama
Director: Konstantin Shekin
Potter, kind and poor guy, finds a magical artifact named Stone Of Fire, that makes him rich and cruel. The evil Queen decides to kill him, so she could lay her hands on the Stone Of Fire. Only the main character, a girl named Ginger, can save Potter with her devotion. Without a moment's hesitation she rushes to rescue her friend, helping Potter to understand that love and honest work are more important than money and power.
   OFF ( LA PANNE)
Canada | 50min Feature | Drama
Director: Hervé Baillargeon
In the wake of a surprise power outage, the youngsters of Sainte-Pauline-de-la-Légère learn with much trepidation that they will have to spend their entire vacation without electricity.
     THE SHOCKLOSERS SURVIVE CAMP ANALOG
United States | 75 min Feature | Adventure
Director: Lee Fanning
A group of teen friends-- the self-coined "Shocklosers"-- are shipped off to Camp Analog-- a summer camp that specializes in rehabilitating young people with destructive tech habits-- after a prank for their online channel goes too far. But once there, they discover not everything is what it seems, and the Shocklosers must fight the established conformity to preserve their individuality.
 
SHORT
 
BANANA GIRL
United States | 7min Short | Drama
Director: Shayna Connelly
Seven-year-old Bananas Girl asserts her independence, perfects the art of the non-sequitur and navigates the boundaries between herself and her mom. The film exists in the intersection of home movies, performance art and documentary, incorporating a mother’s and daughter’s obsessions and their parallel views of what it means to be creative
  AMAZING KIDS – IN THEIR OWN WORDS
United Kingdom | 6min Short | Drama
Director: Alexander Amelines
Children from different backgrounds share their unique experiences of the autistic spectrum in their own words
  FRIENDS
Russian Federation | 15min Short | Drama
Director: Tatiana Ivashkina
One day, on New Year's Eve, two friends - first-graders Natasha and Anya - get acquainted with Nura and (against Anin's will) take her into their company. From this moment on, lives of that three friends are inseparably linked. Together they grow up, revolt and cheat
     GIVE IT BACK
Israel | 15min Short | Drama
Director: Ruchama Ehrenhalt
Olivia is a 12-year-old immigrant from New York. She is trying to find her place in the new world she just landed in, Israeli society. Instantly she connects with Alem, an Ethiopian boy who sits next to her in class. It doesn't take long for her to realize that their friendship is social suicide. This is a story about alienation, friendship and home.
   GRANDMA’S SECRET
Germany | 15min Short | Drama
Director: Lydia Bruna
Lisa is at her grannys like she is every friday. But today everything is different - Granny is behaving weird and does the strangest things! Lisa hears her parents discussing what could be wrong with granny and as they mention an old people home, she starts really worrying
     GLITTER MODEL - SEASON 3
Brazil | 24min Short | Animation
Director: Angelo Nunes
Clara, the main character, is discovered by Jonathan, a Model Scout and the girl who was bullied at school with nicknames like “Tall Clumsy Giraffe”, will discover her potential and become a beautiful model, part of the biggest model agency in town: Glitter Model.
 
Youth Made
 
   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.
    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.
  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.
    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.
 
Kids Made
 
  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...
    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.
 
Music Videos & Songs
  Big Bad Wolf (USA)
Donald Walker
    Dreamsheep (Colombia)
Lulú Vieira
   I Wanna Be An Eagle (USA)
Joe Petrucelli, Mark Simon
     Luz (France)
John Banana
 

@San Deigo International Kids' Film Festival, Producer: Lynn Tang; Production Co.: Maeya Culture Exchange Group