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We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2015 Providence Children’s Film Festival!

AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARDS

PCFF Audience Choice Award Laurel

2015 Audience Choice: Best Featuresongof-longhair

SONG OF THE SEA
Ireland, 2014 / Dir. Tomm Moore

2nd Place: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

2nd Place: BELLE AND SEBASTIAN

3rd Place: FINN

3rd Place: FINN

2015 Audience Choice: Best Short

JUST BREATHE
USA, 2014 / Dir. Julie Bayer and Josh Salzman

2nd Place: MONOCULAR MAN
3rd Place: PAPA

SPECIAL JURY AWARDS

PCFF Special Jury Award Laurel 2015 Special Jury: Best Feature

Scrap Wood Wars 2-MAIN_rsSCRAP WOOD WAR
Netherlands, 2014 / Director: Margien Rogaar

Ulisses 10,000 Moustaches (3)_MAIN_rs2nd Place: ULISES AND THE 10,000 MUSTACHES

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2015 Special Jury: Best Short

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WIND
Germany, 2013 / Dir. Robert Löbel

2nd Place: MONOCULAR MAN
3rd Place: DECORATIONS

Saturday, February 21

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Screening: 1:55pm (Granoff Center for the Arts, Brown University)
Make local connections: Learn more about The Walking School Bus in Providence from the Family Services of RI

Family Service of Rhode Island provides volunteer-led walk routes to help a number of young students, living within a mile of school, to walk to and from school. This program promotes school attendance, which is critical to learning. View a video about the program and their need for your support during this cold, snowy winter. Volunteer and/or donate mittens, gloves, hats etc. to help keep the Walking School Bus kids warm!Walker-Comics-ANTBOY

We’ll be collecting mittens, gloves and hats after the screening!

ANTBOY WORKSHOP: Super Weaknesses!
11:30am – 12:30pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
Space limited. Pre-registration required on site.

Kids will collaboratively generate a team of weirdo Superheroes and dive into their odd weaknesses and incredible origin stories!
Instructor: Walker Mettling, Providence Comics Consortium

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Screening: 12:55 – 2:15pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)somerset1
Dress as your favorite superhero!
Followed by Superhero presentation with Eric Fulford

WORKSHOP: Make Your Own Instruments
3:10pm – 4:10pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
All ages. Drop in any time!

The Okee Dokee Brothers know there’s no need for fancy-pants equipment when you want to play a tune. Make your own instruments from common materials at this drop-in instrument-making workshop.  Learn to make spoons, washboard, shakers, tin can drums and a DIY banjo!
Teacher: Lindsay Meehan, Mary Ann Hall’s Music for Children
Assistant: Katie Fairhead, playScience!

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Screening: 4:35pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
Following the screening join the parade out of the theater
with your newly made instruments from the workshop!

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Screening: 6:05pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
After the film, stay for a performance with Brian Jones, professional tap dancer!

Sunday, February 22

Free Flip Book Movie Making and Art Activity
All Day (RISD Museum – Chace Center for the Arts)

Meet Papa Cloudy and friends!
11:00- 2:00pm (RISD Museum – Chace Center for the Arts)
Director Akiko McQuerrey of PAPA CLOUDY’S RESTAURANT
will be in the lobby with the puppets she used to make for the movie.

28945-2013-BKFF-Shorts-Recipe-613X463YOUTH FILMMAKER SHOWCASE
Screening: 1:45-3:15pm (RISD Museum – Chace Center for the Arts)
Two youth filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-film Q&A:
Amy Vogel (Director) ALEX AND THE LUCKY GUM and Harleigh Wacker (Director) THE LAST ZOMBIE

PATEMA INVERTED
Screening: 11:20am (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
Let’s talk gravity with Conroy Baltzell, Brown University Physics Student

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Screening: 1:50pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
We’ve got mustaches! Free mustaches will be handed out to kids entering cinema! Take your picture and post it to Instagram with the tag #PCFF2015

PCFF 2015 AWARDS CEREMONY & RECEPTION
5:35pm (Gilder Center for the Arts, Wheeler School)
Join us as we close out the 2015 Festival season with our annual awards ceremony! Stay for pizza donated by Flatbread Company Providence and other refreshments.

Over 80 kids participated in 8 workshops at RISD (February 7 & 8): Storyboard and Animation, Lightpainting, Animation, Lip Sync as well as three LIVE ACTION! workshops in Foley and Field Audio, Green Screen, and Special Effects and Camera Tricks.

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Watch all the videos here: https://vimeo.com/album/3268768

Due to last weekend’s snowstorm, we’ve added more screenings to the Festival schedule!

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Friday, Feb. 20 (Rhode Island Convention Center)

Saturday, Feb. 21 (Avon Cinema)

Sunday, Feb. 22 (RISD Museum) – Free screenings

Due to the weather, food truck schedules are subject to change without notice.

Saturday, February 14 from 11-5

RISD Museum – outside Chace Center, N. Main Street

Sunday, February 15 from 11-4

Wheeler School – Meeting Street (between Brook and Hope Street)

RISD Museum – Closed due to the weather

Monday, February 16 from 11-4

Wheeler School – Meeting Street (between Brook and Hope Street)

RISD Museum – outside Chace Center, N. Main Street

Saturday, February 21 from 11-4:30

Wheeler School – Meeting Street (between Brook and Hope Street)

Sunday, February 22 from 11-4:00

Wheeler School – Meeting Street (between Brook and Hope Street)

RISD Museum – outside Chace Center, N. Main Street

YFS-Regional-PCFF-2015-350x2802015 Youth Filmmaker Showcase: Regional Edition*

Monday, February 16, 2015, 3:45pm @ The Avon Cinema – Thayer Street
Appropriate for all ages

PCFF is committed to nurturing the work of young “amateur” filmmakers and so is proud to present a juried program of films all made by youth-from here in Rhode Island and around the world-and to provide an opportunity for young filmmakers to talk about both the fun and the challenges they face during the creative process. This exciting screening is designed to encourage talented and committed up-and-coming young filmmakers, and to inspire those who are just thinking about it.

* This show includes a Q&A and discussion with those filmmakers who are able to attend plus a group workshop reel created by students who attended the PCFF filmmaking workshops on February 7th and 8th

YFS-Multi-Regional-PCFF-350x280We had so many fabulous youth submissions this year that we put together 2 YFS shows!

Don’t miss the 2015 Youth Filmmaker Showcase: Multi-Regional Edition with youth films from around the world.

Sunday, February 22, 2015, 1:45pm @ RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium

Please note: We have split this program into two parts.Part 1 is recommended for Ages 8+. Part 2 has more challenging content and is recommended for Ages 13+. There will be a short intermission between Part 1 and Part 2. Read Parental Guidelines here.

Join us to celebrate! 6th Annual Providence Children’s Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT PARTY and FILM SCREENING
Thursday, February 12 from 5:30 – 9:00pm
RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium – 20 North Main St., Providence, RI 02903
Purchase Tickets!
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Help us kick off this year’s festival with food and festivities followed by a screening of  Zip & Zap and The Marble Gang.
 
5:30pm: Party with food and drink. Thank you to our beverage sponsors: Campus Fine Wines and Whole Foods Market. Food provided by Fireworks Catering.
6:45pm: Screening of Zip & Zap and The Marble Gang
Special Tickets Required: $10 Children and Students/$15 Adults (No discounts apply).

Watch the Trailer.
Zip & Zap and The Marble Gang
Director: Óskar Santos| Spain | 2013 | w/ English subtitles |10+ | 106 min | Live Action
Parental Guidance: Bullying, juvenile behavior
Two of Spain’s most beloved comic book characters, Zip and Zap, come to life in this rollicking adventure. With summer coming, the twin brothers are caught stealing the answers to their final exams, so instead of the fun-filled vacation they expected, Zip and Zap are sent to a strict boarding school run by a no-nonsense headmaster named Falconetti. The school is worse than they could have imagined. Fun is absolutely forbidden, and the suspicious Falconetti and his security guards seem to watch their every move. But that doesn’t stop the brothers from enjoying their summer. After making new friends, they form the Marble Gang, and their ongoing mischief and resistance to authority lead them to discover a mysterious secret that MUST be investigated!
The Marble Gang have to solve Rube Goldberg-inspired puzzles to unlock each door along the way using seemingly trivial items picked up along their journey-and applying video game logic that might be familiar to the young audience. The drab flesh tones and dark rooms that occupy the first half of the film are replaced with flashing lights and mechanical wonders as the gang quite literally travels through the looking glass into secret passages filled with danger and intrigue, a combination that generates “fun, the very thing the headmaster is hopelessly attempting to eradicate.
ZIP & ZAP AND THE MARBLE GANG will entrance kids and speak to their intrinsic rebelliousness with its charms and message to never underestimate the value of fun. It is filled with twists and turns and unexpected whimsical surprises that put the characters in harm’s way (sort of), making it just dangerous enough to be fun for the whole family.
The Providence Children’s Film Festival (PCFF) returns this February for its sixth exciting year, February 12 to 22, showcasing 18 feature films including both a USA and Rhode Island premiere, over 50 shorts from around the world and the 2nd Annual Youth Filmmaker Showcase. Coinciding with the February 2015 School Vacation, the Festival presents the highest quality independent films for ages 3-18, but are sure to appeal to all audiences with compelling stories and worldwide adventures. We have expanded this year’s festival offerings including a variety of film talks and presentations to deepen the movie-watching experience.
PCFF has forged a new community partnership this year with the Providence Public Library/Providence Community Library. Free movie screenings, post-film discussions and workshops will be offered during school vacation week at four libraries in Providence.
This year’s programming is as international as ever and brings to area youth a wide range of storytelling and experiences from around the globe, including France, The Netherlands, China, Brazil, U.K., Sweden, Denmark, Japan, and Germany. The program will also include a wide variety of genres and forms—classic cinema, live action, animation, and documentary—paired with an expanded offering of “Film Talks,” PCFF’s own brand of post-screening discussions that aim to deepen understanding of subject matter and foster critical watching skills.
2nd ANNUAL YOUTH FILMMAKER SHOWCASE
PCFF is committed to nurturing the work of young “amateur” filmmakers and so is proud to present a juried program of films all made by youth—from here in Rhode Island and around the world—and to provide an opportunity for young filmmakers to talk about both the fun and the challenges they face during the creative process. This exciting screening is designed to encourage talented and committed up-and-coming young filmmakers, and to inspire those who are just thinking about it. This special screening includes a Q&A and discussion with those filmmakers who are able to attend plus a group workshop reel created by students whom attended the PCFF filmmaking workshops.
Visit the 2015 Film Directory for a complete list of films screening at the 2015 Festival.
Avoid sold out shows. Buy tickets online in advance! Enjoy a Film Fanatic discount when you purchase multiple tickets in a single transaction (online purchases only). 20 % off for 10+ tickets and 25 % off for 20+ tickets

4 Providence Venues

  • Gilder Center for the Arts – Wheeler School: 216 Hope St.
  • Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown: 154 Angell St.
  • RISD Museum Metcalf Auditorium: 20 North Main St.
  • Avon Cinema: 260 Thayer St.