This year’s collection of peer-reviewed, youth-produced short films showcases an international cohort of storytellers working in animation, documentary, comedy, horror, and drama. It’s an inspiring display of emerging young talent from as close to home as Mill Valley and San Rafael, and as far afield as Indonesia, China, Germany, and Korea: A Stellar Vacation! (Noah Shin, US 2022, 5 min), A Date with Kino Redfield (Tony Heffernan, US 2022, 10 min), I Don”t Ride My Bike Anymore (Gabriel Perez, US 2021, 8 min), Silver (Haley Stemmons, US 2022, 2 min), The Queen’s Closet (Cameran Grace Ford, Ava Wolf & Joe Tourk, US 2021, 8 min), The Dilemma: Extra-Curricular Institutions in China (Huanshuo Wang, China 2022, 15 min, in Chinese with English subtitles), Stache Society (Olive Corine Read, US 2022, 6 min), Underwater Basket Weaving (Parker Bladow, US 2022, 5 min), Merry Go Round (Ella Fields, US 2022, 14 min), The White Rose (Ian Kim, US 2021, 3 min), Harmony with Upstairs (Sunmin Yang, South Korea 2021, 14 min, in Korean with English subtitles), Midnight Smoker (Jeremy Gautama, Indonesia 2022, 1 min), Schattendachs (Louis Hartmann, Germany 2022, 2 min).
In English and various languages with English subtitles
Age 11+