Programs + Events

Film Production

Accessible Arts Division (Pre-K to 5th)

Maddux Remillet
Title: All Access’ – An Accessible Game Experience
Grade: 5
Redlands Special Education PTA (Fifth District PTA)
All Access is a short, non-fiction film documenting my experience as a child with a physical & intellectual disability attending a professional hockey game. Filmed entirely from my perspective – with my parent’s assistance – using a camera mounted to my wheelchair and chest, I feature all the ways a person like me explores my environment, shares in the excitement and how I BELONG just like my peers. Narrated by my best friend Kaleb Herman, using a script I wrote, the film includes original audio & licensed music from Bensound.com.

Accessible Arts Division (6th to 12th)

Fernando Nunez
Title: My Life in Puzzle Pieces
Grade: 12
El Dorado High PTSA (Fourth District PTA)
“This video reflects on my life starting when my life was expected that I would belong to a group of people who couldn’t talk, but that didn’t happen. This video relates to the theme, “I Belong” because of how much the progression took from not being able to talk or anything in 2-3 years old till now functioning better like an average person thanks to my parents and my former teachers for their hard work for me to belong in many different settings.”

Primary Division (Pre-K-Grade 2)

Tess Corrall
Title: My Piece Fits
Grade: 2
Jefferson Elementary PTA (Thirty-Third District PTA)
My film is about how I don’t always fit in everywhere. But I do belong with things I love, like art, music, slime, and books! I belong because I’m me.

Intermediate Division (Grades (3-5)

Sherry Ma
Title: I Belong to Love
Grade: 4
Hugo Reid Parent Teacher Associaiton, Inc.(First District PTA)
My film, I Belong to Love, tells the story of how I learned what “home” truly means. As an immigrant child, I once dreamed of a big, beautiful house, but I realized that love—not walls or rooms—creates belonging. Through my drawings, I show my family’s laughter, our simple joys, and friendships that cross cultures. This film expresses that home is not a place, but the people who love you.

Middle School Division (Grades 6-8)

Hayden Lawrence
Title: The Quiet Q
Grade: 6
Redwood Middle School PTSA (Twelfth District PTA)
When making this, I was inspired by beads, because what belongs more than a bead in a bead box filled with the same letter? My work relates to the theme because at first, the main character feels alone, but when she takes a risk, she finds people like her, but different, which is good. When they talk about how “letters make words, words make…” they’re speaking about how we’re all a part of something bigger. Everybody has their bead box, a place where they belong.”

High School Division (Grades 9-12)

Emmett Lee
Title: Grayscale
Grade: 12
Alhambra High School Parent-Teacher Association, Inc. (First District PTA)
Grayscale follows a boy with a desaturated complexion who feels rejected by the world because it has color, and in-turn resents the world. The gray skin is a metaphor for several things, and can apply to many people who feel they don’t belong due to their race, sexuality, identity, expression, etc. The point of the film is to put the message out there that despite our differences we all work together to create a beautiful world–and no matter how different, you can always find your identity represented in the people (or things) around you.