2022 San Diego International Kids Film Festival--Youth Made Films

BASHO JAZZ FLEMING THE LOST SOCK United States | 7min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Basho Jazz Fleming According to some study, we lose an average of 15 socks a year!     CAKE Hong Kong | 2min Youth-Made | Animation Director: Ka Wai Lai, Chak Lai Lam, Pei Tak Lam This animation is talking about a litter bear who was looking at a photo with his father in the forest. Then, he wanted to make a honey cake for his father. Although he got stung by bees when he was searching for the honey, he finished and baked the cake successfully. After that, he climbed and waded to his father’s house. His father enjoyed the cake. They had a reunion.   CYRANO United States | 16min Youth-Made | Animation Director: Claire F. Amato Cyrano is an animated retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Cyrano, a talented but insecure fencer, falls for Roxanne. However, she has fallen in love with his friend Christian. Christian is not a poet and asks Cyrano to write love letters to Roxanne in his stead, but perhaps Cyrano's true feelings have seeped into the letters.     DOUBT THE STARS ARE FIRE United States | 15min Youth-Made | Animation Director: Jaemin Feldman When 16-year-old Alex learns an unsettling truth about her late mother, she begins to question the nature of her own existence.   FEDYA ON THE MARKET Russian Federation | 9min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Bella, Camila, Avi, Grace, Adela, Aubriella, Austin Little Nastya lives with her mom and helps her sell potatoes in the market. One day they meet a mom’s friend, who jokes that she sees the future, and for their potatoes she will find a groom for her friend. Nastya believes in the wonderful properties of their potatoes. And miracles are not long in coming.)   FOREST Russian Federation | 7min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Ekaterina Chandaeva She graduated from the school in Nizhny Novgorod. Now she studies at the producer faculty at the university. From 2018, she has been participating in the Nizhny Novgorod competition of short videos "Look at the city". Filmed a video for the competition as a director.   HAIR Hong Kong |2 min Youth-Made | Animation Director: Kai Lam, Ka Shun Tang, Nok Man Wong, Hong Yu Lai, Chi Hin Yau The animation is going to talk about a doll who laughed because the other dolls only got a few hairs. Suddenly there was a wind blowing the protagonist’s hat, It revealed that he only had one hair and it look so ugly. But the other dolls did not laugh at him when they saw it, Instead, they cut their hair until there was only one hair left and same as the protagonist     HOTEL BROWN Russian Federation | 4min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Vladislav Borodaev Detective Sanders is investigating a mysterious crime at the Brown Hotel that will lead him to an unexpected denouement.   MUTANT MONSTER MISSION United States |11 min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Luca Tedesco Who is the hunted? Who is the hunter? A monster created by a billionaire has escaped and she has hired a team of hunters to capture it. But have they walked into something more?     POLLUTION SOLUTION Canada| 6min Youth-Made | Drama Director: The Bum Family A short documentary that explores what people are doing about pollution. Made by a group of 6 young cousins who fear the world is ending due to human activity. By asking people how they address the pollution crisis in their everyday lives, and using animation to illustrate the responses, the filmmakers hope to inspire viewers to do their part in solving the pollution solution.   RETIREMENT 2: SALT ON THE ROAD United States | 17min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Joshua M Thomas Dig up the past. Dig up the pain. An energetic rookie and a hard boiled veteran cop work an old cold case that haunts everyone involved, whether they know it or not.     THE TIMES WE WERE LIVING IN United States | 14min Youth-Made | Drama Director: Asali Echols, Montgomery Samuel Thomas What's black and white and dead all over? Something is rotten in Booneville. The Mayor turns up dead, and Detective Humphrey Trowell is uncovering a thicker and thicker web of lies. Will anyone come out of this wreckage alive?