INDIEKIDS FAMILY SHORTS

MELON HEAD
Emma Bergin takes us on a wacky trip through her imagination. If all four year olds could create a cinematic tour de force, it would look and sound something like this!
Dir. Emma Bergin
USA (4 mins.)

DAS RAD
Apparently rocks are having conversations all around us…This highly inventive yet cautionary fairy tale was nominated for an Academy Award in 2003.
Dir. Chris Stenner
Germany (8 mins.)

SOME LIKE IT HEAVY
With technique, design, style and humor well beyond his years, 13-year-old Aidan Terry describes his film as “a giddy old geezer going ga-ga over a gargantuan goddess.”
Dir. Aidan Terry
USA (6 mins.)

CAMEL AND CACTUS
Produced by a group of teens for the Taiwan Public Televison, Camel and Cactus features two unlikely friends meeting in the desert and is a great tutorial for kids itching to make their first movie.
Dir. PTS group project
Taiwan (5 mins.)

CYPRUS KIDS FOR KIDS
This brief portrait of a divided country was created from a workshop of the 2006 Kids for Kids Film Festival. This documentary gives a children’s perspective of political unrest.
Dir. Kids for Kids CIFEJ
Cyprus (3 mins.)

A LITTLE WALK
What mysteries lay hidden in the deep grass? For this extremely short animation the author worked for over a year, patiently drawing hundreds of paper sheets.
Dir. Aleksandra Popiñska
Poland (1 mins.)

WHY COWS DON’T FLY
Annually, La Matatena Workshop travels through Mexico teaching filmmaking to at risk kids. Their 2006 production Why Cows Don’t Fly upholds the tradition of kids having fun making something absurd.
Dir: La Matatena group project
Mexico (2 mins.)

STICKS AND STRINGS
Sticks and Strings comes from a student filmmaking class at Atelier AAA in Annecy France and is a simple short of pencil drawings in a delightful homage to street performers.
Dir. Atelier AAA group project
France (1 mins.)

ANIMOSITY
During a week intensive class at Atelier AAA, four French teenagers worked on this award winning film, designed as a statement against racism. It is a hand drawn fable of tolerance and cooperation and was their first experience with animation.
Dir. Jérôme Girard, Marion Sméryl, Laura et Manon Greillet
France (2 mins.)

PAVEL AND GAVEL
Pavel lives a tidy quite life, but his horrid downstairs neighbor, Gavel, makes a racket and hunts in the house! This collage film was created by Children’s Film Factory in Poland, where adults act as technical advisors and children write, direct and produce.
Dir: Galeria Enropia group project
Poland (5 mins.)

PIECES OF 8IGHT
Portland’s favorite pirates, Captain Bogg and Salty, kick it old school style, literally, in their latest music video “Pieces of 8ight.”
Dir. Vance Malone
USA (4 mins.)

ANNIE AND BOO
Two and a half years in the making, Annie and Boo poetically utilizes the latest in 3D technology and is a stunning example of the contemporary filmmaking being created overseas with amazing attention to detail and novel character design.
Dir. Johannes Welland
Germany (14 mins.)

Co-director of IndieKids Present
		SHAWN BOWMAN’s introduction to the film world was through the scrappy and demanding job of a production assistant in NYC, cutting her teeth on dozens of features, music videos and commercials. As a location manager and production coordinator, Bowman worked for prominent directors Griffin Dunne, Fisher Stephens and Spike Jones on independent feature film projects. She has five years experience teaching production and media literacy to at-risk kids in film enrichment programs. For the last three years Bowman has hosted international film festivals bringing remarkable world-class cinema to young people in her community.