Final Winners Kids For Kids - Awards & Justification 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007

Children's Jury

Title: Lunar Monster (Mexico), 2 min.

Context: This short film made by children participating in a workshop by La Matatena, Asociación de Cine para Niñas y Niños. La Matatena teaches the children how to model in clay animation and helps them with technical tips. A cameraman shot the film, but the kids were in charge of moving their main characters.

Production: La Matatena, Asociación de Cine para Niñas y Niños, A.C.

Team: Kids from the La Matatena Workshop

Contact: Liset Cotera

Jury's comment: For the quality of its animation and its humor, and a good punch line

Adult Jury

Title : Water is Life (Belgium), 8 min. 20 sec

Context: Caméra Enfants Admis worked with 40 children from 2 schools in Donsin, Burkina Faso to create this animated short film. The film tried to open the public debate about the water-problems and it’s consequences for the local health situation. The young filmmakers were able to send out a clear preventive message, educative and humorist, in the typical African tone of ‘humorous kinship’, a special West-African code.

Production: Caméra Enfants Admis

Team: 40 children from 2 schools in Donsin, Burkina Faso

Contact: Louise-Marie Colon & Jean-Luc Slock

Jury's comment: The prize goes to a film, in which we could see children’s investment in wanting quality of life through quality of the water. The drawing is nice and the music superb.

Animation 13-16 years old

Children's Jury

Title: The Furniture (Sweden), 2 min. 20 sec

Production: Individual

Team:Marcus Hagwall

Contact: Marcus Hagwall

Jury's comment: For the quality of the animation, of the modeling, the backgrounds and for the attention to small details. A funny film that tells a not so original story in a very original way.

Adult Jury

Title: Color (Serbia & Montenegro), 2 min. 21 sec

Context: Individual work in a workshop’s tradition

Production: Workshop Centaf (Center for Animated Films, Cecek)

Team: Dragan Cirkovic and Vuk Spasojevic

Contact: Slobodan Pajic, Dragan Cirkovic and Vuk Spasojevic

Jury's comment: The message “War takes away the brightness of life” certainly got through in this animation. There are poetry and personal feelings.

Live Action 6-12 years old

Children's Jury

Title: Julia Loves Me (Canada), 10 min.

Context: Marcello wrote, directed, edited the film, and acted in it. The adults involved operated the camera when Marcello was acting, and helped in postproduction. Marcello's father wrote the original music score.
Production: Marcello Sperandeo

Team: Marcello Sperandeo

Contact: Marcello Sperandeo

Jury's comment: For a story anybody can relate to. For its creative use of camera technique. For the courage and skill of the director in getting a large team working together and for the overall professional quality of the project.

Adult Jury

Title:The Sniper (Armenia), 1 min. 04 sec

Context: The film was produced in the framework of the ‘Youth and Peace’ Film Festival, organized by the Manana Youth Educational-Cultural Center and UNIFEM.

Production: Manana Youth Educational-Cultural Center

Team: Hovnan Baghdasaryan & Vardan Arshakounie

Contact: Lusine Babayan

Jury's comment: An original concept with suspense and surprises. A good set up for emotion and punch line. Live Action 13-16 years old

Children's Jury  & Adult Jury

Title:  Jailroom 8 (Uruguay), 11 min. 25 sec

Context: The film was produced in the context of Dodeca Film School for Youth in Montevideo, Uruguay. The course aims to develop students' critical as well as creative abilities, encouraging both appreciation and directing. Highly skilled professionals teach it. At the end of the course, each group of students produces a short film with the support and supervision of the teachers.

Production: Escuela de Cine Dodecá

Team: MatíasVentura, Federico Rodriguez

Contact: Walter Tournier

Children's Jury's comment: For the overall quality of the cinematography, the excellent choice and use of music, the good acting. For the creative use of technique that made you feel as if you were really there. A film dealing with a universal subject

Adult Jury's comment: We particularly appreciated the humor.  This film, about boring educational methods, can lead to productive discussions between teachers and students.

Prizes were not awarded because there was only one entry.

Arts & Documentary 13-16 years old

Children's Jury

Title:Is Billy In? (UK), 7 min. 31 sec

Context: Young people from the small town of Keynsham worked for two days with members of the internationally renowned dance company STOMP who choreographed the routine. A crew made up of young people from the area, and supported by local industry professionals filmed over three days. Several of the young crewmembers were also involved in the editing process.

Production: Suited and Booted Workshop, Bath

Team: Richard Jenkins, Luke Doug Haines, Luke McGuinness, Daryl Clift, William Ben Thomas, Theseus Gerard, Fraser Morrison, Chris Kemp, Sara Strickland and the young actors in the Suited and Booted workshop.

Contact: Chris Kemp, Sara Strickland

Jury's comment: For a fun and creative film with good music, good photography and good rhythm that was more than just a music video, because the filmmakers added a small funny story line.

Adult Jury

Title: Mot(e)lys (Norway), 4 min. 50 sec

Context:

Production:

Team: Ingvil Kjorholt

Contact: Elisabeth Aalmo or Ingvil Kjorholt

Jury's comment: This film carries an important issue: girls very much concerned about the way they look. We appreciated to see girls participate on a subject that is not often discussed.

Sports Film 6-12 years old

Children's Jury & Adult Jury

Title: The Shot Putter (Sweden), 13 min. 40 sec

Context: Written by 12 year old Christin Eklund and based on her own experiences. Christin won a screenplay contest; the prize was help from Mora Medieverkstad in adapting the scenario. The film was made as a 2 weeks full time project between Färnäs School and Mora Medieverkstad. The adults helped the children through the entire filmmaking process, but the children, especially Christin, were in charge.

Production: Mora Medieverkstad

Team: Britt-Marie Meyer, Christin Eklund, Ellen Marklund, Mia Olsson, Alfonse Agren, Pernilla, Sabrina, Tora, Anders, Charlotte, Henrik, Anders, Daniel, Erika, Maria, Emma, Ponthus, Erik, Matilda, Stefan, Anders, Johan, Anders, Martin, Sanna, Jessica, Philip

Contact: Britt-Marie Meyer

Children's Jury's comment: For its message: that you should never give up and always have faith in yourself. For the ability of the main actress to raise sympathy for her character. The film tells a story that anyone can relate to and that is close to the reality of children’s lives.

Adult Jury's comment: The subject about school bullying is an actual and profound social problem. The main actress was natural and touched our hearths. The editing is very well done.

Sports Film 13-16 years old

Children's Jury & Adult Jury

Title: Extreme Sledding (USA), 5 min. 1 sec

Context: The three boys wrote, filmed and edited this video as an independent project. No adults participated in any way (or even knew about some of the extreme sledding stunts - obviously!)

Production: Chris Schneider, Luke Reyhl, Noah Reyhl

Team: Chris Schneider, Luke Reyhl, Noah Reyhl 

Contact: Kim Schneider

Children's Jury's comment: A real kid's movie. As one of the jury member said: “When I read the title, I knew I was going to like it.” The film is funny in a kid's way. It’s a real MTV parody.

Adult Jury's comment: This short movie is a glimpse in the eye. It could only have been done by kids (parents and adults were excluded in this extreme sport). Definitely good clean fun!

Grand Prize - Children's Jury

Title: I Am (India), 15 min.

Context: A group of 12 children, most of them fatherless or orphans, participated in a workshop lead Nidhi Mehrotra and Manav Jalan. They were briefed on video filmmaking and given the basic concept of using the camera the way they would use drawing, poetry, essays or photography to express themselves. They shared their dreams, hopes, and wonders, and were, despite their poor economic conditions, very optimistic. They wrote the texts and drew out their dreams, which became the film's dialogues and sketches. Gaurang Films assisted in production and post-production.

Production: Gaurang Films.

Team: Ashikul Islam, Rahul Shaw, Gopal Ssen, Babu Mondal, Raju Biswas, Arjun Mandi, Ashis Chowdhury, Saiful Mondal, Tanmoy Karmakar, Bapi Mandal.

Contact: Manav Jalan

Jury's comment: For its positive message, full of hope and faith that, no matter what your circumstances are, you can always have hopes and dreams.   A very touching and moving film, which shows quite a different world from the one portrayed by the media. The jury liked the way the director showed us his friends, smiling. It is a film that has an impact on the lives of young people. Anybody who sees this film will remember it.

Grand Prize - Adult Jury

Title: Our Everyday Lives (UK/Egypt), 15 min

Context: A young person, two facilitators, a translator from Mouth That Roars (UK), and a peer facilitator, helped train young people in Egypt to make a film. All the filming and part of the editing was done by the young people themselves. Due of lack of time, the editing was finalized in the UK. All the young people involved worked on camera, sound, directing and basic editing.

Production: Workshop Mouth That Roars

Team: Children of the Mouth That Roars Workshop and the young people of Bahariya Oasis

Contact: Denise Rose