Opening Gala at 2022 San Diego International Kids Film Festival
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  Opening Gala  of 2022 SDIKFF  
 

Admission: Gala Pass
Performances, Certification Presentation, International Moviestars, Food & Drinks
Time: 6-9PM, Oct. 28, 2022
Location:Dining Hall (799 Pine Avenue Carlsbad, CA 92008)  

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The Performing Artists: 

 
 
Jodi Cilley, Producer. Filmmaker, Professor
Jodi Cilley is an Emmy nominated producer and long time filmmaker, entrepreneur and educator. She has been teaching video production since 2004 and has taught video and editing at UC San Diego Extension Digital Arts Center, Platt College and the Media Arts Center San Diego. She has produced over a hundred projects including web series', short films, TV specials, documentaries and commercial projects and produced Film Indiego, a 6-Part TV Series for KPBS. She has a BS in Sociology from Boston College and an MBA with specializations in entrepreneurship and management from San Diego State University. As the founder and current president of the Film Consortium San Diego and the founder and producer of the annual San Diego Film Awards and San Diego Film Week, she is working to build a strong local film industry and to increase exhibition, distribution, funding and employment opportunities for local up and coming film talent. She is an adjunct professor at San Diego City College in the Radio, Television and Film department and recently produced, co-wrote/directed/edited the 3 time Emmy nominated San Diego Film Awards.
   Teresa Suárez Grosso, Actor, Host
Teresa is a first-generation, bilingual, Spanish-American Character Actor and Voiceover Talent, best known for her work in Independent Films and in Theatre. Prior to becoming an actor, she also worked in medicine as a Physician Assistant, and as a Foreign Language Teacher. She was also an avid dancer, including the study of Classical Ballet, Argentine Tango, Jazz, Modern, and Latin Dances. After suffering a permanent disability from an injury, which ended her career in medicine, she turned back to the Performing Arts, finding both a new passion, and new career as an Actor. Teresa also has an Upper Extremity Service Animal, who has performed with her in several films, and in theatre.
 Alonsco Nunez. Comic Artist. Director Of San Diego Comic Fest
Alonso Nuñez is the Founder and Executive Director of Little Fish Comic Book Studio, a nonprofit comic art studio and advocacy group. His work at Little Fish focuses on the continued placement and use of comics and comic-based curriculum in schools and organizations, such as Cabrillo National Monument, the San Diego Italian Film Festival, KPBS/ One Book One San Diego, and schools and libraries across San Diego County. Alonso has served as a member of the One Book One San Diego Selection Committee since 2016, helping to select the first two graphic novels given that distinction, March (2018) and They Called Us Enemy (2020). He was a Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards judge in 2021 and his artwork has appeared in books and publications by Kodansha, Moonstone, and the ACLU. He is currently working on his first full-length graphic novel, Hatchepsut
   Elena C.Castaneda, Mariachi Singer
Elena is a very famous mariachi, she has been in TV and radio in tijuana and channel 10 news telemundo; She has released her personal CD and covers songs. She has been sing in the choir of church as second voice in spanish choir of St Charles parish in southbay.
 Aviva Naomi Wrosch, Singer for USA national anthem
Aviva is 13 years old and an 8th-grade student at Community Montessori School. She loves dancing, acting, and singing! She began her singing journey with the Arioso Choir at the Center for the Arts (run by Dana Stanford) when she was 8 years old. While singing with the Arioso Choir, she developed a passion for singing. For the past 3 years, she has been taking vocal lessons with Amy Throckmorton at Luminary Arts and pursuing her other passion - musical theatre! Her love of musical theatre began at Luminary Arts when she played Lucy in 13: The Musical. Since then she has played Titania in Cobweb Dreams, Jafar in Descendants: The Musical, and Mrs. Phelps in Matilda Jr. Her next play will be Prairie Lights, which will debut in December 2022 at Patio Playhouse.
Nova and Aryan
Nova, age 17 and Aryana, age 10 have been learning the Chinese instrument called Pipa together for four years under their teacher Rachel Jiang. Nova is in 12th grade in a high school; She also likes to play drums ,piano. And drawing ; Aryana is in 5th grade in an elementary school. She takes dance, kung fu and vocal lessons in her after-school time.

 

 

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