Saturday, June 1 @ 11:00 AM – Salt Lake City
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Saturday, June 8 @ 2:00 PM – Orem
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Sunday, June 9 @ 3:00 PM – Park City
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Monday, June 10 @ 2:00 PM – Moab
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Wednesday, June 19 @ 4:00 PM – Kamas
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Saturday, April 6 @ 11:00 AM – SLC
THE CITY LIBRARY 210 E. 400 S.	Learn More – Salt Lake City…
Monday, April 8 @ 2:00 PM – Moab
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Saturday, April 13 @ 2:00 PM – Orem
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Wednesday, April 17 @ 4:00 PM – Kamas
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Sunday, April 21@ 3:00 PM – Park City
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Saturday,February 2@ 11:00 AM – SLC
THE CITY LIBRARY 210 E. 400 S.	Learn More – Salt Lake City…
Saturday,February 9@ 2:00 PM – Orem
OREM PUBLIC LIBRARY 58 N. State Street	Learn More – Orem…
Monday, February 11 @ 2:00 PM – Moab
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Sunday, February 17 @ 3:00 PM – Park City
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Wednesday, February 20 @ 4:00 PM – Kamas
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Directed by Signe Taylor
Recommended for children 8 and up | 80 min. | 2011 | USA

Join charismatic young jugglers, acrobats, and clowns as they spend the summer performing with Circus Smirkus, the only travelling youth circus in the United States. This vibrant documentary follows 27 of America’s top circus performers, aged 12 to 18, over one unforgettable summer. Filled with great characters and amazing performances by truly talented teens, Circus Dreams is a heartwarming story that offers a unique look at youth on a voyage of artistic and personal discovery, and provides an inspiring testament to the power of youthful dreams.

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New 2012 Collection of Short Films – Animation/Mixed Media

Recommended for ages 3 to 6 | 60 min. | Various Countries

All films in English or without dialogue

Enjoy a colorful collection of short films from around the world, hand-picked as audience and jury favorites from the 2012 New York Int’l Children’s Film Festival. This collection is suited for our youngest audiences, ages 4 to 8.

B/W Races
Italy
Animtion, Jacopo Martinoni, 2010, 2.5 min
A quirky, black and white paper cut-out animation about a car race – in which a rogue black driver who runs others off the track gets his comeuppance. Home-made sound-effects add to the lo-fi fun. Vroooom.

Balloon Moon
Portugal
Animation, Jose Miguel Ribeiro, 2010, 5 min
With sumptuous colors and artful stop motion animation, a cardboard boy and his ladybug friend set sail into a deep blue moonlit sea and have a dream adventure.

Behind
Canada
Animation, Ga Young Back, 2011, 3 min
After a trying and scary day, a little girl feels all alone – until she realizes that her best friend has been with her and taking care of her the whole time.

Diversity
USA
Animation, Anthony Dusko, 2010, 1 min
This instructive cartoon teaches important lessons of life, like how to do the happy dance.

Ernesto
UK
Animation, Corinne Ladeinde, 2011, 7 min
Seven-year-old Ernesto feels left out when he realizes he’s the only kid in school who hasn’t lost any baby teeth. Ernesto resorts to drastic measures to get rid of them; his teeth however, have other plans…

The Gruffalo’s Child
UK
Animation, Johannes Weiland/Uwe Heidschotter, 2011, 26 min
One wild and windy night, the Gruffalo’s child ignores her father’s warning and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse. This follow-up to the Oscar-nominated original is adapted from the enormously popular Gruffalo picture books by British author Julia Donaldson.

Gulp
UK
Animation, Sumo Science, 2011, 2 min
Aardman Animations and Sumo Science follow up last year’s wonderful diminutive Dot (which set the world record for smallest animated character) by notching it up a few orders of magnitude. Shot on an expansive seaside location, they set a new record for the world’s largest stop motion set, in this story of a fisherman who gets swallowed by a whale.

Keenan at Sea
USA
Animation, David Cowles/Jeremy Galante, 2010, 2 min
This adorable, hummable tune from NY acoustic pop group The Girls is the theme song for the 2012 festival! “A salty sea and a boat for three as we sail past the coral reef… we wave goodbye to the sandy beach far away… la la la la!”

Metro
USA
Animation, Jake Wyatt, 2011, 5 min
A young girl chases a mysterious fox through a secret door and into a subterranean wonderland to retrieve her stolen train ticket.

Twist & Shout
Japan
Animation, Yosuke Kihara, 2010, 3 min
Two cute-as-buttons Japanese puppets travel to Abbey Road to find inspiration and shoot the video for their ukulele cover version of “Twist and Shout.”

Who is Not Sleeping?
Sweden
Animation, Jessica Lauren, 2010, 4 min
Rabbit is sleeping over at Teddy Pig’s house. It’s going to be lots of fun! They are playing and drinking hot chocolate, but when the lights go out something doesn’t feel quite right.

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Tuesday, August 28 @ 7:00 PM | Salt Lake Public Library (210 E 400 S)

Directed by Mark Decena
55 min | 2012 | USA
Narrated by Robert Redford

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Mark Decena, Watershed tells the story of the threats to the once-mighty Colorado River, the most dammed, dibbed and diverted river in the world, and offers solutions for the future of the American West.

Panel following the film featuring
Mark Decena (Director – WATERSHED)
Jamie Redford (Producer – WATERSHED)
Sue Bellagamba (Canyonlands Regional Director – The Nature Conservancy, Utah)
Gary Wockner (Director – Save The Colorado)
Moderated by
Dave Livermore (Utah State Director – The Nature Conservancy)

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Thurdsday, August 23 @ 7:00PM | Star Hall (159 E. Center) – Moab

Director: Lucy Walker
104 min | UK | 2006

Set against the breathtaking backdrop of the Himalayas, Blindsight follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest.

A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge made all the more remarkable by the fact that the teenagers are blind. Believed by many Tibetans to be possessed by demons, the children are shunned by their parents, scorned by their villages and rejected by society. Rescued by Sabriye Tenberken – a blind educator and adventurer who established the first school for the blind in Lhasa, the students invite the famous blind mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer to visit their school after learning about his conquest of Everest. Erik arrives in Lhasa and inspires Sabriye and her students Kyila, Sonam Bhumtso, Tashi, Gyenshen, Dachung and Tenzin to let him lead them higher than they have ever been before.

The resulting 3-week journey is beyond anything any of them could have predicted.

Utah Film Circuit generously sponsored by 

Presented in partnership with the Utah State University Center for Persons with Disabilities.

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Wednesday, August 22 @ 7:00 PM | Utah Museum of Fine Arts – Salt Lake City

SPEED at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Directed by Marshall Curry
93 min | 2009 | USA

RACING DREAMS is an award-winning coming-of-age story about three kids who dream of one day racing in NASCAR. This exciting and often humorous film takes us into the lives of Annabeth (11), Josh (12), and Brandon (13) as they compete for the  championship in the World Karting Association‘s National Series, widely considered the Little League for professional racing.

Best Documentary – 2009 Tribeca Film Festival
Best Documentary – 2009 Chicago International Film Festival

Free Screenings in partnership with Speed: The Art of the Performance Automobile at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
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Tuesday, August 21 @ 7:00 PM | The City Library – Salt Lake City

Directed by Yung Chang
89 min | 2012 | Canada/China

In southwestern China, a Master coach recruits poor rural teenagers and turns them into Western-style boxing champions. Through hard work and discipline, these boys and girls hope to become China’s next Olympic heroes, but as they decide whether to fight for the collective good as amateurs or for themselves as professionals, their struggle becomes a metaphor for the choices that everyone faces in the New China.

Official Selection – 2012 Sundance Film Festival
Official Selection – 2012 Hot Docs Film Festival

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