CEFF 2023 Festival

Top 10 Best Kid's Short Film Collection

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10 films in package
Biochar - Soil's Best Friend
Learn how biochar can help restore our soils and change the environment.
Closed captions available
Right here. Right now.
Coming of age in Colorado Springs, filmmaker Taylor Saulsbury gives voice to her generation's climate anxieties, creating portraits of resistance and resilience.
Closed captions available
The Rock Pool Waltz
During COVID lockdown, a boy’s affinity with nature eases his loneliness and leads to an incredible five month long friendship.
Stop Pebble Mine
The little-known Pebble Mine project is one of the most significant threats to wildlife and native Alaskan communities.
Addressing Inevitability: Composting for a Healthier Earth
This film grapples with the devastating environmental impact of food consumption and how throwing food waste into trash cans instead of compost bins brings us leaps closer to destroying our planet.
Closed captions available
Mālama i ke Kai
Three Huliau environmental filmmaking students share their personal relationships with the ocean, threats facing marine environments, and why they think it is important for us all to mālama i ke kai (take care of the ocean).
Closed captions available
Plastic Pandemic
COVID-19 has contributed to plastic pollution in Hawaii and globally. Teens discuss ways to avoid single-use plastic items and a global "plastic pandemic".
Closed captions available
Sunscreen Standoff
Students use an animated conversation between two sunscreens to highlight the potential impacts of chemical sunscreen on our marine environment.
Closed captions available
Rise, Fall, Hope
14-year-olds explore ancient human ingenuity, our current environmental dystopia, and the role of creativity moving forward. Their film’s 8 movements are embedded in pieces of rubbish which read like a post-apocalyptic comic book, each pane a piece of trash.
Closed captions available
A Crisis Carol
In this "A Christmas Carol" spinoff, Mother Earth teaches Scrooge the importance of caring for our environment by revealing to him Earth's past, present, and future.

Films Included:

  • Biochar - Soil's Best Friend (CC available)
  • Right here. Right now. (CC available)
  • The Rock Pool Waltz
  • Stop Pebble Mine
  • Addressing Inevitability: Composting for a Healthier Earth (CC available)
  • A Crisis Carol
  • Mālama i ke Kai (CC available)
  • Plastic Pandemic (CC available)
  • Sunscreen Standoff (CC available)
  • RISE, FALL, HOPE (CC available)

Total Run Time = 52 minutes

This short PSA created by our fall Huliau Environmental Filmmaking Club students, outlines ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has been contributing to plastic pollution globally. The students also share ways in which we can all avoid these additional single-use plastic items and prevent the global "plastic pandemic" from getting worse.

  • Runtime
    3 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Premiere
    Colorado
  • Director
    Justin Pe Benito, Calvin Araki, Esta Smith
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