Shine Global Announces Inaugural Children’s Resistance Film Award Nominees

Shine Global Announces Inaugural Children’s Resistance Film Award Nominees

Shine Global has announced the nominees for its first children’s resilience film, which honors filmmakers who highlight and celebrate the power of children around the world.

The four nominated films are Vietnam, Sweden/Denmark/Norway and USA.

The nominated films were selected from feature films from 32 countries and will screen in New York from September 16 to 18, followed by an awards breakfast in Los Angeles on October 20, where the winner will be announced. to be announced The winner will receive a cash prize of $25,000.

Judges include Kay Wilson Stallings, executive director of creativity and production at Sesame Workshop; María Pérez Brown, Head of Children and Families, time studies; Amy Kennedy, children’s rights activist, educator, and 2020 Democratic candidate for Congress; Jana Sue Memel, Oscar-winning producer; s the hollywood reporterSenior Awards Analyst Scott Feinberg.

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Shine Global addressed the issues of child labor, child abuse, child soldiers, parental incarceration and undocumented immigration, as well as homelessness. Shine Global’s first film was in 2007 War/Dance, which was a documentary depicting Acholi refugee children living in Patongo, a refugee camp in northern Uganda. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2008 and won two Emmy Awards in 2010. Shine Global innocentand (2012) won the 2013 Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Film).

See the four nominees below.

Çabi: 8 to 13 years (Sweden/Denmark/Norway)
Directed by Engel Broberg
Gaby: 8 to 13 years old Follow the amazing Gabby through five formative years as she struggles with society’s stereotypes about boys and girls.

rise (USA)
Directed by David J. Petersen
filmed for ten years, rise It centers on the never-before-seen story of homelessness in America through the eyes of a group of young homeless dancers enrolled in New York’s LIFT theatrical ballet program and the mentor who inspires them, internationally renowned ballet dancer Steven Meléndez. .

Maika: A girl from another galaxy (Vietnam)
Directed by Ham Tran
Vietnam’s first children’s science fiction film, Maika: A girl from another galaxyIt follows an 8-year-old boy who overcomes the loss of his mother as he helps an alien girl return home.

Scenes from the glitter world. (USA)
Directed by Jared Jakes
After three indigenous students, Scenes from the glitter world. is a meditation on adolescence, trauma, and the power of connection to an isolated Navajo homeland.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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