2021 International KidsNFilm Festival - Screening 3 - Winners Announcements

The Plot

Screening 3 - Festival Winners Announced Immediately After Screening!

Featuring the Highlight Screening of "Amy and the Tortoise" How Animals Saved the Planet - Directed By John Leben

Juggling Autism, Aodhan Lane, Director - DOCU (13-17). Juggling Autism explores how Circus Arts have helped a young boy learn to cope with his challenges and channel his creativity in a positive way. Runtime 7:52

Hide! Matt Streeter, Director - NARR/PRO. Two little girls fight off and evade a monster who clearly underestimates their abilities. Runtime 5:14.

Wednesday, Lisa Delhom, Jérémy Paquet, Directors - NARR/PRO (2020 Winning Film). Iris and Leo are waiting for their school bus, just like any other day. This morning, however, it does not arrive. Facing no rules but their own, the two eight-year-olds embark on an urban adventure, one they shall never forget, roaming the streets of Montreal. Runtime 10:00

S.A.D - The Movie, Guilherme Gehr, Director - ANI/STOMO/PRO. A kid creates space adventures with his toys. As summer break arrives, he travels with his parents to the Scottish highlands, but a storm puts his imagination to the test, and his fate will depend on it. Runtime 9:00

VTA-The Gold Rush Collaborative Art Project, A Documentary Project from VTA, Vallejo Teaching Artists - Special Screening - Runtime 8:27 

Kids On COVID, A Kids N Film Multimedia Special Screening. Students Self-Taping Project during Covid shutdown. Runtime 16:13

Milk,  Celia Jaspers, Director - NARR/PRO. When she sees an old man unable to pay for his milk, a young girl has a change of heart. Runtime 5:00

Mateus, Caleb Pimpo - NARR/PRO. A young boy copes with being bullied by imagining himself as a knight in a fantasy world. Runtime 10:56

"Amy and the Tortoise" How Animals Saved the Planet - Directed By John Leben.  Amy, a twelve-year-old girl, lives under a glass dome and sometimes has to wear a gas mask when the elephants let her go outside. Her outside friend is Gus, a grumpy 100-year-old tortoise. Amy narrates Gus's story of environmental disaster when humanity almost destroyed the planet. Technocrats called Bald-Headed Suiters created habitats for people to live in a worsening environment beset by storms, floods, and unbreathable air. But the Suiters cared little about the planet or the animals that populated it. Their solutions were short-sighted, only focused on the survival of humanity. After the forests burned in the fires of global warming, the suiters built villages under giant glass domes where people could breathe manufactured air. But then a funny thing happened. With humanity isolated under glass, the world began to heal. Humanity, and especially the Bald-Headed Suiters, were like a virus, sickening the planet. The animals, including Gus the tortoise, noticed the change and went to work rebuilding the forests... their homes that were devastated by the fires of global warming. As the forests grew the Suiters dreamt of rebuilding their cities and reestablishing their dominance over nature, setting the stage for an epic struggle between the animals and the suiters.

John Leben, Director Statement - The movie, "Amy and the Tortoise" started out as a book for kids aged 10-16, fully illustrated by the digital paintings I've been doing on environmental topics for the past ten years. The book is in very limited release (not yet for sale) as an eBook which was produced solely to use as a demo to attract a literary agent who could help me find a print publisher. I began production of this movie for the same purpose but soon came to realize the power of this movie in itself. My goal is to find distribution channels for both the movie and the book to help deliver the message of sustainability to a young audience.

• Age Rating Teen(13+ years old)
• Running time 01:38:45 mins
• Hosted By: International KidsNFilm Festival

The Experience For You

Screening 3

Juggling Autism, Aodhan Lane, Director - DOCU (13-17)

Juggling Autism explores how Circus Arts have helped a young boy learn to cope with his challenges and channel his creativity in a positive way. Runtime 7:52

 

Hide! Matt Streeter, Director - NARR/PRO 

Two little girls fight off and evade a monster who clearly underestimates their abilities. Runtime 5:14

 

Wednesday, Lisa Delhom, Jérémy Paquet, Directors - NARR/PRO

2020 Winning Film. Iris and Leo are waiting for their school bus, just like any other day. This morning, however, it does not arrive. Facing no rules but their own, the two eight-year-olds embark on an urban adventure, one they shall never forget, roaming the streets of Montreal. Runtime 10:00

 

S.A.D - The Movie, Guilherme Gehr, Director - ANI/STOMO/PRO

A kid creates space adventures with his toys. As summer break arrives, he travels with his parents to the Scottish highlands, but a storm puts his imagination to the test, and his fate will depend on it. Runtime 9:00

 

VTA-The Gold Rush Collaborative Art Project, A Documentary Project from VTA, Vallejo Teaching Artists - Special Screening - Runtime 8:27 

 

Kids On COVID, A Kids N Film Multimedia Special Screening. 

Students Self-Taping Project during Covid shutdown. Runtime 16:13

 

Milk,  Celia Jaspers, Director - NARR/PRO

When she sees an old man unable to pay for his milk, a young girl has a change of heart. Runtime 5:00

 

Mateus, Caleb Pimpo - NARR/PRO

A young boy copes with being bullied by imagining himself as a knight in a fantasy world. Runtime 10:56

 

Featuring The Highlight Screening of"Amy and the Tortoise" How Animals Saved the Planet, Directed By John Leben.

 

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