“I will show you what I know. Sometimes we will disagree. If we learn at all to grow. Then I have done my small duty.” In this peer-reviewed collection of youth-made films, today’s teen filmmakers show us just how much they know about cinema, storytelling, and the world as they see it. The Look (Max Retik, US 2018, 6 min), Goodbye Sam (Theo Taplitz, US 2017, 5 min), Backyard Bees (Will Noyce, US 2018, 4 min), Amrika (Nicole Bahar, US 2017, 4 min), Dance with Me(Isaac Karliner-Li, US 2018, 5 min), Perception (Lola Duenyas, US 2018, 2 min), The Last Straw (Julian Jordan, US 2018, 12 min), Experimenting with Animation (Paige Flaming, US 2018, 1 min), Why, God? (Nathan Ginter, US 2018, 8 min), Davy Jones Can’t Fly (Grant Anderson-Smith, US 2018, 7 min), Censored (Maggie Budzyna, US 2018, 3 min), One in Thirty: The Story of Henry Oster (Sarah Antabli, Tiffany Chang, Stephanie Cho, Sara Lowin, Gracie Sandman, India Spencer, & Juliet Wiener, US 2017, 6 min), Gray Areas (Kat Swander & Jack Safir, US 2018, 7 min), The Rat (Miranda Autumn Lewis, US 2018, 5 min), The Light of My Life (Erina McSweeny, US 2018, 4 min), The Redwood Grove (Will Noyce & August Mesarchik, US 2018, 10 min), Pop (Ishaan Parmar, US 2018, 6 min). Age 11+

Expected Guests:
Director Will Noyce; Crew August Mesarchik (Backyard Bees)  (All Screenings)
Writer Aidan Kwasneski (The Redwood Grove)  (All Screenings)
Director Ishaan Parmar (Pop)  (All Screenings)
Director Grant Anderson-Smith; Talent Marcus Paulson (Davy Jones Can't Fly)  (All Screenings)
Director Miranda Lewis; Crew Max Chu (The Rat)  (All Screenings)
Director/Producer/Writer Maggie Budzyna; Set Photographer Erin Budzyna (Censored) (Oct. 7)
Director/Writer Jack Safir (Gray Areas
Director Paige Flaming (Experimenting With Animation)  (All Screenings)
Director Julian Jordan (The Last Straw) (All Screenings)

Oct 12 screening is a CFI program open to school groups and the general public