Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids is a mini festival experience with films, activities, and workshops for kids of all ages. Films in the Tumbleweeds program highlight stories and young protagonists from around the world that both entertain and illuminate the world around us.
The 2022 Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Kids offers viewing options for everyone — indoor screenings at the Mid-Valley Performing Arts Center in Taylorsville take place on May 20 – 22, 2022, and online screenings at home or on the go will run from May 20-29, 2022.
Animation Celebration
A collection of animated short films from all ages that celebrate different animation types. Films in the program to be announced!
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Jackie & Oopjen
When Oopjen thinks 12-year-old Jackie is the sister she’s lost years ago, Rembrandt’s famous painting comes to life.
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Maika
After a meteor falls to earth, 8-year-old Hung meets an alien girl from the planet Maika, searching for her lost friend. The alien helps Hung make new friends and heal a broken heart. But danger lurks everywhere.
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NYICFF Kid Flicks One 2021-2022
Presented in partnership with New York International Children’s Film Festival.
Share your love of cinema with your little ones with Kid Flicks, curated to charm all ages and especially introduce our youngest viewers, ages 3+, to their very first screen experiences.
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NYICFF Kid Flicks Two 2021-2022
Presented in partnership with New York International Children’s Film Festival. With shorts for ages 8+, Kid Flicks Two audiences are ready for plenty of fun, plus deeper themes and multilingual films with English subtitles.
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Sisters: The Summer We Found Our Superpowers
Original title: Tottori! Sommeren vi var alene
Calm Vega (9), her wild sister Billie (5), and their outdoorsy dad go for an overnight hike in the wilderness. The trip is all fun and games until Dadalls into a mountain crack and hurts himself badly. Unable to move, he tells the girls to go and find help. Together Vega and Billie set off on a mission across the wild Norwegian nature, and must brave wild animals, exposure, each other, and their own fear.
Spaceboy
Arriving in a new town with his dad, Jim, a gifted 11-year-old boy has to participate in a young scientist competition with his new classmate Emma. Jim convinces her to secretly build a real air balloon. Pursuing his father’s dream of going to space, Jim drags her into an adventure which brings them closer.
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Special Screening: Lamya’s Poem
A young refugee girl fleeing violence and war finds a book of poetry by the celebrated 13th century poet, Rumi. The book becomes a magical gateway where she meets the young Rumi when he was a refugee, escaping the terrible wars of his time. In a shared dream world populated by monsters and other threats that represent the perils they face on their respective journeys, she must help him write the poem that 800 years later will save her life.
Supa Modo
Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a Superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill.
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The Strangest Girl in the World
(La chica más rara del mundo)
Melién is 15 years old and has an incredible imagination. She loves to read mystery books, draw monsters and write horror stories. She is happy with her way of being, even though at school they say she is “The strangest girl in the world”. But, the problem she has is above that, apparently, her drawings are coming to life.
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Zero Gravity
Zero Gravity follows a diverse group of middle-school students from San Jose, CA, who compete in a nationwide tournament to code satellites aboard the International Space Station.
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What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
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What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
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What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
What you hear in a movie is not real. When you watch a movie, the actors may be real, the location may be real, the animals may be real, but what you hear is an illusion. Come help us tell a good story and create some amazing sounds from unexpected objects.
This event has concluded.
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Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
Learn from Utah Education Network how to record, edit, and share your story as a podcaster! Learn the basics of audio recording including with tools possibly available in your home or school. Kids will also learn how to edit and add music to your podcast.
