2018 Tumbleweeds Film Festival

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Get your picture drawn by the Hand Drawn Photo Booth, a pretend photo booth “machine” operated by a real-live artist. The photo booth can draw anything in reality and from your imagination. Request a picture as a character from a film or let your imagination go wild!

Phenakistiscope! Thaumatrope! Zoetrope! What the heck do those words even mean? You’ll make your own of each of ’em —and more!— with Salt Lake City Maker Faire, and become an optical illusion wizard.

In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday, join us as we create, paint, and decorate his famous fish from “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” that will be part of a collaborative installation leading into the entrance of the Film Festival! All of the sculptures are made from upcycled and previously used (lightly loved) materials, so you can learn how to do this at home!

Shadow puppets are a beautiful storytelling art form from Bali. Puppets from the Utah Museum of Fine Arts’ Education Collection will offer inspiration as you craft your own moveable shadow puppet. Flashlights and a puppet theater will be on-hand to bring your puppet to life.

Swoop by the University of Utah’s Youth Education booth to decorate your own Swoop mask. Represent the U with pride! Enter to win a gift bundle that includes a $50 gift certificate that can be used toward youth education tuition for 2018.

Blow off some steam messing around with Discovery Gateway’s giant blocks. A good post-film stress reliever. Discovery Gateway will also be making suncatchers out of tissue paper and construction paper. A fun craft for younger kids!”

Build dancing animals, robots, and aliens with found materials, then make a video of them dancing on our fun backgrounds using your phone!

Using only aluminum foil and your imagination, create a boat that can hold the most marbles before sinking.

Kids and their families can experiment with the power of the wind as they create devices and watch them fly in a wind tube.

Craft Lake City will be bringing their artistry and know-how in an interactive project that you can take home, details to come!

These typists are the Poem Pros, waiting to type up any story you want on the spot. Tell them what's on your mind and they'll get to work.

Want to touch a real human brain? Or see what they look like through a microscope? The Neuroscience Program at the University of Utah will be presenting all manner of brain-based shenanigans, and will challenge you to brain teasers as well.

Learn how to make your very own mini light saber using batteries, LED lights, straws and tape. Kids will learn how to create their own (and fun stuff like basic electric circuitry! Yeah!). Great for future Jedi and electrical wizards alike!

Check out a vareity of cutting-ege interactive and augmented reality applications on tablets. Learn the latest music, robotics, movies, and drawing technolgies.

Documentaries bring us real stories, but how do virtual reality documentaries work? Feel what it's like to be immersed the story with 360 documentarian Carol Dalrymple of KUED.

Clark Planetarium produces video games and dome movies that are sold all around the world.  The Defend The Earth video game is a fun way for people of all ages to see how they do protecting the Earth from an extinction level meteor event like the dinosaurs experienced.  It uses real solutions that have been suggested by scientists.  Check out Clark Planetarium and see if you can defend the Earth!  

Playful Corp is on a mission to bring joy to the world, one game at a time, bringing characters and stories to life in ways never before possible. "Star Child" is Playful's sci-fi cinematic platformer coming to PlayStation VR in 2018. “Super Lucky’s Tale", a launch title for the Xbox One X, is a delightful playground platformer featuring a lovable fox named Lucky.

Pop into the Leonardo for a multi-station hands-on experience in Mini Movie Making: Green Screen, Zoetrope, Animation, Storyboarding and all manner of jumping about! What is a story you want to tell? We will show you how to begin to tell it as a movie!

Look out for drawing donkeys around the Leonardo: art, tech, and science-based stations where you can create images of what you see around the exhibit. Draw, shape, design!

These typists are the Poem Pros, waiting to type up any story you want on the spot. Tell them what's on your mind and they'll get to work.