Sony Wonder Selects Youth Videos

05/05/08

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Sony Wonder Technology Lab
550 Madison Avenue, Manhattan

Stricken
dir. Don Cameron
The Lab: Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
(Padmini Narumanchi: padmini@reelworks.org)
Documentary, 6mins, 2006

My movie is about how your surroundings can shape who you are. The film is related to me because I feel that I am sometimes frustrated with my situation and hope that I am never shaped or influenced by my community.

Hopeful Home
dir. Ryan Bethune
The Lab: Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
(Padmini Narumanchi: padmini@reelworks.org)
Documentary, 8mins, 2007

Hopeful Home is about my family’s experience in a homeless shelter when we moved back to New York after my Grandmother died.

A Message to Marlene
dir. Jasmine Britton
The Lab: Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
(Padmini Narumanchi: padmini@reelworks.org)
Documentary, 7mins, 2007

After a family has been separated for a year, a woman buys a house to bring them back together. This film shows how she struggles to juggle her stressful job and family, while dealing with the stress of being a first time homeowner.

Playing with the Other Tigers
dir. Zachary Lennon-Simon
The Lab: Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
(Padmini Narumanchi: padmini@reelworks.org)
Documentary, 10mins, 2007

Playing with the Other Tigers is the story of two friends, one who is Muslim and one who is half-Jewish, who stayed friends because they never realized that they were different from one another. Through conversations between the two friends the film explores how they stayed friends even after everything that happens in the world.

Lost Minds
dir. Keisha Frazier
The Lab: Reel Works Teen Filmmaking
(Padmini Narumanchi: padmini@reelworks.org)
Documentary, 8mins, 2007

Change is an important part of life that is sometimes good, sometimes bad and many times unavoidable and uncontrollable. In Lost Minds two very different families are connected by the same life-changing disease that has greatly affected the people that they love. This film takes the viewers on a journey from the onset of the disease to the final stages of the disease and explores how these families have struggled, accepted and overcome.

A Still from Herbert the Chameleon

Herbert the Chameleon
dir. Aven Fisher
(silver.leaf@ns.sympatico.ca)
Canada
Animation, 5 mins, 2007

An eager chameleon pays his first visit to the Imax cinema hoping to experience the wonders of popcorn and the big screen 3D experience.

Learning to Curse
dir. Bret Kerven
(bretkerven@rcn.com)
Narrative, 2 mins, 2007

Nine-year-old Haley begs her teenage brother to teacher how to curse before fourth grade starts, but when the mischievous kids try out their new skills on their Nanny, she teaches them a lesson about talking dirty.

A Still from A Day At the Zoo

A Day At the Zoo
dir. Bret Kerven
(bretkerven@rcn.com)
Narrative, 2 mins, 2007

In this short comedy, a woman takes her baby to the park, but all the people she encounters are such animals!