CANADA | 40 min | Ages 4-12
Co-presented by Downtown Guelph Business Association
Tickets: $5 Adults / Kids Free
Event: Meet our local kid filmmakers.
Thoughtful and fun short animated films paired with a series of micro-docs made by local kid filmmakers.
TINY DOCS BY TINY PEOPLE
Gita's Luxury Cat Hotel by Gita Anand-Bauch (Age 9)
Sawyer's Family Fractions by Sawyer Melody Davidson (Age 10)
Sailing for Fruit by Magnus D (Age 7)
Our Animals by Cadence Lopez-D’Alimonte (Age 5)
Zfvhjgs by William Stajkowski (Age 1.5)
Smoothie Movie by Felix Messer (Age 7) and Otis Messer (Age 3)
Greta's Birds by Greta D (Age 5)
Magic Garden by Fraser Herd (Age 9), Marleigh Herd (Age 9), and Garrett McKeown (Age 10)
The Murder Mystery by Frankie Awad (9) and Audrey Ribeiro (9)
Spontaneous Teleportation-itis by Jonas Awad (Age 11)
MORNING CARTOONS
Frida in the Sky
Dani Sadun | CANADA | 6 min
Frida, an 8-year-old engineering prodigy, builds an airplane behind her mother’s back to follow in her Abuela’s legacy.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Dani Sadun
Born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dani Sadun is an emerging filmmaker with an interest in animated films. "Pandemia" (2020) was the first animated short-film she directed followed by "A Story of Amore" (2021) a year later. For her senior thesis project at the School of Image Arts, she wrote, designed, animated, and directed Frida in the Sky, which premiered in the Spring of 2023 and has been selected as a semi-finalist for the Student Academy Awards.
Spirit Bear: Fishing for Knowledge, Catching Dreams
Amanda Strong | CANADA | 22 min
Spirit Bear travels from Carrier Sekani territory to the unceded lands of the Algonquin Peoples, learning about traditional knowledge and the history of the residential school system along the way.
DIRECTOR BIO:
Amanda Strong
Amanda Strong is a Michif Indigenous filmmaker, media artist and stop-motion director based out of the unceded Coast Salish territory in Vancouver, British Columbia. She has exhibited work and her films have been screened at festivals worldwide.
