School Program Grade 1-3

Nov 23 9:30 am to 11:00 am

Our in-person School Program is now full; local teachers within the Regent Park neighbourhood will have been contacted by our team.

Registration for the 2023 Online School Program is also now closed.

If you would like to receive notice of next year’s program ahead of time, please contact education@rpff.ca to get on our mailing list.

Charlie and the Hunt

Year: 2022
Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Language: English, ASL
Length: 15 min
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Charlie is a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult) with a wonderful mom and an adorable dog. When her mom’s bracelet goes missing, she sets off into the wild with her homemade map, where she uncovers breathtaking landscapes and priceless treasure.

Directed by

Jenn Shaw

Jenn Shaw is an DGA award-winning filmmaker specializing in sports, comedy and coming-of-age films. She has directed over 50 commercials, documentary films and over eight narrative shorts premiering at Hollyshorts, Pan African, Cannes Short Film Corner and Tribeca Film festivals. Her past Executive producers include Spike Lee and Queen Latifah.

I Can’t Said The Ant

Year: 2023
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Language: English
Length: 8 min

A teapot slips off the kitchen counter one fateful afternoon, causing pandemonium in the world of inanimate kitchen objects. No one is able to help her… save the lowly ant, who arrives just in time.

Directed by

Sara Jade Alfaro Dehghani

Sara Jade Alfaro-Dehghani is filmmaker hailing from Oshawa, Ontario. She began making films in Montreal, moving to Toronto to produce, write and direct in 2017. Sara’s films explore multi-cultural families and stories about women. She also writes about language, gender and domestic family dynamics, within a whimsical and dramatic lens.

Wash Day

Year: 2019
Genre: Animation, Slice of life
Country: Canada
Language: English
Length: 2 min
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Wash Day follows Zoey, a young black girl, as she spends the day washing, styling, and sometimes fighting with her hair.

Directed by

Jaida Salmon

Jaida Salmon is a Caribbean-Canadian artist/animator based in the Greater-Toronto-Area, who loves all things creative. A Bachelor of Animation grad from Sheridan College who is currently animating and illustrating various freelance projects. An ongoing goal for Jaida is to create positive representation for underrepresented people.

The Amazing Adventures of Awesome

Year: 2020
Genre: Family, Animation
Country: England
Language: No dialogue
Length: 6 min
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The Amazing Adventures of Awesome is a hand illustrated animated film about a young autistic girl at the heart of a quiet revolution.

Directed by

Allison Brownmoore

Allison is a BAFTA nominated director and founder of Past Curfew, a boutique design/animation studio. As the mother of an autistic child, and as an artist with a disability, Allison is passionate about telling stories which celebrate being different, and how these differences can be exciting, engaging and rewarding.

Girls in Chess

Year: 2018
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Language: English
Length: 4 min

Girls in Chess shines a spotlight on the gender gap in the world of competitive scholastic chess.

Directed by

Jenny Schweitzer Bell

Jenny Schweitzer Bell’s directorial work has premiered with top-tier publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic. She is based in New York City.

Frida in the Sky

Year: 2023
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Animation
Country: Canada
Language: English
Length: 6 min
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Frida, an 8-year-old engineering prodigy, builds an airplane behind her mother’s back to follow in her Abuela’s legacy.

Directed by

Dani Sadun

Born and raised in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dani Sadun is an emerging filmmaker. For her senior thesis film, she wrote, production designed, animated, and directed “Frida in the Sky”, which premiered in the spring of 2023 and was selected as a semi-finalist in the Student Academy Awards.