The inaugural edition of the Gaza Children’s Film Festival opens Thursday with a screening of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning short classic The Red Balloon. The one-month festival ...

Storm Boy, Colin Thiele’s much-loved classic, has never been out of print. Its iconic 1976 film version, with David Gulpilil as Fingerbone, turns 50 this year – and it has long been hailed one of ...

Lisa Nordin is an actress, writer, and fan of all things performing arts. Her favorite genres are Sci-Fi and Fantasy. She is a self-published author and enjoys exploring how fictional stories help ...

The Like You Children's Film Festival was created to provide quality, curated content for kids as an alternative to passive screen time. Held at the Pink Palace, the festival features nearly 160 films ...

In much of the world, children’s cinema still struggles for recognition, too often dismissed as educational side programming rather than an artistic or commercial force. The Sharjah Intl. Children’s ...

A product of Disney’s early-’80s push toward more mature storytelling, Something Wicked This Way Comes was adapted by Ray Bradbury from his own classic novel. The film follows two young boys whose ...

Chris Williams is a writer with more than 20 years of experience writing about film. Animated storytelling has dominated many lists of the best family films of the 21st century, from Pixar’s emotional ...

Holding Shaun Tan’s 2006 book The Arrival, you get the immediate impression of holding a found object – a family album or personal archive held together by hopes and dreams. The book, now celebrating ...

Gaza’s first Children’s Film Festival officially kicked off on November 20 and will run until December 20, carving out a whole month of films, color, and creativity for kids who desperately need a ...

That phrase has become increasingly triggering for parents, who worry that their children are not only spending too many hours staring into televisions, laptops and cell phones, but are being directed ...