Screenplays at 2020 San Diego International Kids Film Festival
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 2020 San Diego International Kids' Film Festival Screenplays
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Blind Spots (USA)                                       Feature | Screenplay Writer: Kevin Eis

Blind Spots (USA)                                                                        

Writer: Kevin Eis

BLIND SPOTS is a heartwarming tale about the relationship between a wide-eyed puppy, Pancake, and a stoic seeing-eye dog, Radar. Pancake spends her time at her owner’s auto shop where she’s loved and spoiled by every patron. However after an unexpected accident leaves her father blind, she’s forced to share her space (and dad!) with a dog that couldn’t be more different.

Grow Home (Australia)
Feature | Screenplay Writer: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan 

 

Grow Home (Australia)
Writer: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan

 After stumbling on a magical finding in the Tasmanian forest behind her house, a young girl teams with her timid brother and an old forest dweller to protect the woodlands and reunite her separated parents.

 

Hear, Boy! (USA)                                       Feature | Screenplay Writer: Noah Edelso

Hear, Boy! (USA)                                                                          

Writer: Noah Edelson

A misfit girl is unwillingly adopted by a pack of dogs that believe she's their “Guardian”: The One that can lead them to their mythical haven. If she can crack their code, stay one step ahead of the dogcatcher, and climb a mountain, she just might save their lives.

 

Here Be Dragons! (USA)
Writer: Steve Brumwell, Lee J Lawson

After discovering a mysterious old hermit in an abandoned coal mine, four friends searching for their missing classmate team up with him to fight off the machinations of a local businessman using dark magic to further his sinister ambitions.

Panda Bibi and Fan Xiaoqiang (China)                                                      
Short | Screenplay Writer: Mi Yang 

The Song of Cloud (China)
Writer: Zhifeng Chen Jie Yang Jiao Du

Yun Duo in Zizhou, Northern Shaanxi, have not been getting along well with her mother-in-law Yu Guizhi since she got married to her husband Mu Linsheng. The simple stage suddenly collapsed at the donkey racing meeting caused her father-in-law died, her mother-in-law hates her because of this, then forcing two people to divorce. Yun Duo’s daughter Qiaoer is frightened suffer from autism When they wrangling. After divorce, Yun Duo with ill Qiaoer began a healing and self-healing road.

The Adventures of Willow and Oliver (USA)                                                
Feature | Screenplay Writer: Rain Stor

The Adventures of Willow and Oliver (USA)                           Writer: Rain Story

Willow and Oliver are the rabbit and turtle couple that overcomes a hunter, a devious woodpecker, a treacherous trip down a mountain, nearly drowning in a river, and their own bickering to rally forest animals together and repair a handicapped farmer’s leaking crop runoff, saving the land and their home.

 

The Handstand Heard Round the World (USA)
Writer: Leland Thomas Faegre  

The True Story of an aspiring 11 year-old gymnast with dreams of an Olympic berth risks her future attendance at school and her athletic career as she is inexplicably banned from performing simple cartwheels and handstands on her Charter School campus.
Elementary School 6th Grader, Deirdre Faegre, is singled-out by campus aides performing basic gymnastic skills soon after the school year begins, provoking a parental response that follows an inquiry as to the source of the restriction; a Mean Ole Principal.

 The Listening (USA)                                                                      
Feature | Screenplay Writer: Jax Malcolm

 

The Listening (USA)                                                                      

Writer: Jax Malcolm

 

An ancient Egyptian demon terrorizes a high school

 

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Asta's Journey (USA)                                                                    

Writer: Freia M. Titland

A film steeped in Norse mythology and folklore, Asta's Journey tells the story of a young girl on the eve of her 9th birthday. Asta's wishes come true as she embarks on an adventure through a magical forest in order to save a new friend.

 

Dawn Ridge (USA)                                                                        

Writer: Elizabeth Diane Adams

DAWN RIDGE explores a young boy’s feelings about losing his family home. Wyatt rows up in a special place - a fantastic old western ranch that once hosted hundreds  visitors a day, but is no longer as popular in a world that has forgotten the lure of six-shooters and lassos.
Wyatt’s fascination with the abled Lost Adams old sends on him on a journey to save the property and remain on the ranch. From bedtime to horse chases, his living room becomes the rowdy saloon it was meant to be. DAWN RIDGE rides head-first into the feelings of loss, growth, and love that come with getting older.

El Capitán & Toby: "The Rescue” (USA)                          Short | Screenplay Writer: Rain Story


El Capitán & Toby: "The Rescue” (USA)                                Writer: Rain Story

A super-smooth Chihuahua finds an unlikely friendship with a clumsy Cocker Spaniel who saves him from an animal shelter.

 Panda Bibi and Fan Xiaoqiang (China)                                                      
Short | Screenplay Writer: Mi Yang

Panda Bibi and Fan Xiaoqiang (China)                                         Writer: Mi Yang

The animal kingdom and the human world are separated by the boundary lake, and they live in their own environment. One day, the curious panda Bibi didn't listen to his father's advice. He crossed the boundary lake and broke into the human world. He was brought into the home of Fan Xiaoqiang, a stubborn boy, in front of a toy. Later, through the species exchange machine invented by fan Xiaoqiang's cousin, a fan of invention, they exchanged roles and lived in each other's environment for a period of time, thus triggering a series of tense and interesting stories, revealing the significance of harmonious coexistence between human beings and nature


The Bike (USA)                                                                     

Writer: Timothy Benson

A ten year old boy's quest for his dream bike takes some interesting and unexpected turns.

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