90 Films Are KIDS FIRST! Best Award Winners

Gorilla in the Greenhouse – Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Ninety-one short and feature films met KIDS FIRST!’s standards for combining excellence in filmmaking with pro-social benefits to be selected winners of the annual KIDS FIRST! Best Awards.  Tinkerbell, The Pups of Liberty and Paws and Whiskers; and How toTrain Your Dragon, Shrek: Forever After, Barbie and Wubbzy, were all celebrated as creative and innovative works and winners.

2010 KIDS FIRST! Best Winners    

SERIES, AGES 2-5    
Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!     Anchor Bay Entertainment

FEATURE FILM, AGES 2-5    
1     Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas     Universal Studios Home Entertainment
2     Curious George: Follow That Monkey     Universal Studios Home Entertainment

SERIES, AGES 5-8    
1     WordGirl      Scholastic Media
2     Strawberry Shortcake     20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

FEATURE FILM, AGES 5-8    
1     Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue     Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
2     Barbie in a Mermaid Tale     Universal Studios Home Entertainment
3     Lego: The Adventures Of Clutch Powers     Universal Studios Home Entertainment

SHORT AGES 5-12    
1     Goosebumps: Go Eat Worms     20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
2     Goosebumps: The Blog That Ate Everyone     20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
3     Tom & Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes     Warner Home Video

FEATURE FILM, AGES 5-12    
1     How to Train Your Dragon     Paramount
2     Shrek Forever After     Paramount
3     Spy Next Door, The     Lionsgate

FEATURE FILM, AGES 8-12    
1     Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief     20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
2     Diary of a Wimpy Kid     20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
3     The White Lion     Screen Media Films

INDEPENDENT SHORT, AGES 2-5    
1     Eco Beeps with Skip & Molly: Plastic Bags     Magic Drawer Productions
2     Tails of Abbygail: Finding Betty     Kid Vid Entertainment
3     Sheepies     NMG

SHORT AGES 5-8    
1     The North Star     Fablevision/Scholastic
2     Great Joy     Weston Woods/Scholastic Productions
3     Safety Smart: In the Water     Disney Educational Productions

INDEPENDENT SHORT AGES 5-8    
1     Pups of Liberty     Picnic Productions
2     Sneeze Me Away     Ryan Grobins
3     Gus Outdoors: Gull Island     Sand Pictures

INDEPENDENT SHORT, AGES 5-12    
1     Ride of the Mergansers     Steve Furman
2     Great Race, The     Martin Humphreys
3     Beans     Bad Sparkle Productions

INDEPENDENT SHORT SHORTS, AGES 5-12, ANIMATION    
1     Gorilla in the Greenhouse: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch     Sustainlane Media
2     Cuento de la C (The Story of C)     Carlos Navarro
3     Manantial     Gabriel Govela Azuela

INDEPENDENT SHORT, AGES 5-12, ANIMATION    
1     Lost and Found     Studio AKA
2     Little Spirit: Christmas in New York     Curious Pictures
3     Slap Back Jack “High Five Master”     Mark Newell

INDEPENDENT FEATURE, AGES 8-12    
1     The Wanderer (Dayo)     Cutting Edge Productions, Inc.
2     I Sense Danger     Blind Dog Entertainment
3     Ez Money     Vizmo Films LLC

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 8-12, Short Shorts    
1     Parent-Teacher Night     Ouat Media
2     Decklin and the Dentist     Lance Dumais
3     Brain Zapped – Reason For The Seasons     George Garcia

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 8-12, Over 10 min    
1     Superhuman     Kick The Dog Productions
2     How I Taught My Grandmother To Read     Worldkids International
3     Hollow Tree, The     Cyprus Productions

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 8-12, ANIMATION    
1     El Salon Mexico     Paul Glickman
2     For A Fistful Of Snow     Julien Ezri
3     After Hours     Marshall Fels Elliot

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 8-12, ANIMATION/LIVE ACTION    
1     Planet You     The Health Museum
2     Locally Unwanted Land Usage     Katherine Balsley
3     Jet     V. Sassmannshausen

FEATURE, AGES 12-18    
1     Twilight Saga, The: New Moon     Summit Entertainment

INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY, AGES 12-18    
1     Shi-Shi-Etko     Monkey Ink Media
2     True Insight (Samyaktva)     Worldkids International
3     AutoMorphosis     Harrod Blank

INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY, AGES 12-18    
1     Walking on Water     Walking On Water

INDEPENDENT FEATURE, AGES 12-18    
1     Broken Hill     Audience Alliance Mps
2     Hey Hey It’s Esther Blueburger     Monterey Media
3     Yeh Khulaa Aasmaan (This Open Sky)     Aaranca Creations

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 12-18    
1     The Naughty List     Rodney Brunet
2     The Day My Parents Became Cool     Eke Pictures LLC
3     The Macabre World of Lavender Williams     Castilian Pirate Productions

INDEPENDENT SHORT, 12-18, ANIMATION    
1     A Long-Distance Call     Joe Chang
2     The Lift     Kohrtoons Studio, Inc
3     FOT-The Next Big Thing     Yukfoo Animation

STUDENT PRODUCTION, ELEMENTARY    
1     Paws And Whiskers     Katie Hoffman
2     The Lion at Home     National Media Museum
3     The Golden Tree     Emma Kenney/Gillian Kenney

STUDENT PRODUCTION, MIDDLE SCHOOL    
1     Ndepawa: I Am Given     Erin Buckley
2     In The Footsteps Of Yellow Woman     Camille Manybeads Tso
3     Sparks in the Night     Ben Kadie

STUDENT PRODUCTION, HIGH SCHOOL    
1     The Complex     Alex Fjellberg Swerdlowe
2     Becoming Cephalopod     Reel Grrls, Katherine Nilsen
3     What Lives On     Jesse Rosenberg

STUDENT PRODUCTION, HS, DOCUMENTARY    
1     Mama’s blouse     Profile Productions Ltd
2     Beyond Green: Paper Gardens     Listen Up! Youth Media Network
3     Beyond Green: Toxic Soil Busters     Listen Up! Youth Media Network

STUDENT PRODUCTION, COLLEGE Short shorts    
1     Extraordinary Monday of Herman Brumby     Allison Leger
2     I’m In Love With Kimberly Johnson     Adam Johns
3     Night Terrors     Matthew Thompson

STUDENT PRODUCTION, COLLEGE Shorts    
1     Harmony Town     Ryan Parma
2     Grown-Up For A Day     Capri Films
3     In This Place     Amy Bench

STUDENT PRODUCTION, COLLEGE, ANIMATION    
1     Kidnap     Sijia Luo
2     We Are All Here     Yonghwa Choi
3     Lobster Boy     Tracy Qiu

SCREENPLAY FOR AGES 5-8    
1     Blinda     Vicki Bartholomew

SCREENPLAY FOR AGES 5-12    
1     Toucan Amazon Adventure, A     Donna Lisa
2     Nuts!     Kevan Peterson

SCREENPLAY FOR AGES 8-12    
1     Play Date     John Malkin
2     The Horse of His Dreams     Sabrina Zackery
3     Dressing Up     Hugh Schulze

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