Joanna likes to wear dark clothes and sketch spooky illustrations. As a result, the kids in Joanna’s class don’t like her, and she doesn’t much enjoy their company either. When her father tells her to “make a friend,” Joanna takes his request literally, with surprising results!

Firefly can’t sleep because his light is shining in his eyes. When he puts his light out he realizes he’s scared of the dark. What is he to do?

Humiliated at school over the action figure he carries everywhere, ten-year-old Kevin realizes he must stay true to himself. Following a climactic confrontation with the schoolyard bully, he finds out he isn’t the only one who still plays with toys.

Molly would rather play football than eat her lunch as she promised her mother. She soon realizes that, by sharing, she can make friends.

Ilona, a nine-year-old girl who lives in the wilderness with her mother and father, has fallen on hard times. Supplies are running low, and when a mysterious fox starts killing their livestock, she has no choice but to track down the strange creature in order to ensure the survival of her family.

The idea of our co-dependence with nature is explored in this delightful animated short about a broken streetlight that finds renewed purpose when it accidentally creates a new plant.

The Lost Thing is a story about a boy who discovers a strange creature on the beach. The boy realizes this creature is lost and decides to help it find its way home.  After much searching, the boy reaches a utopian land for lost things, where he leaves the creature, unsure of whether the creature really belongs there.

• Best Australian Short Film, 2011, Flickerfest
• Gold SpIFFY for Best Animation, 2011 Spokane Int. Film Festival
• Brian Corin Award Best Animated Short Film, 2011, Santa Barbara Int. Film Festival
• 83 Academy Awards, 2011 Oscar for Best Animated Short

This inspirational  story shows how the youth of Koh Panyee, a village on a small floating island in Thailand, realized their dream of creating a competitive football (soccer) team.

In this film, part of the What Makes Me Happy series of short films that shows disadvantaged children around the world, we see the positive spirit and resilience of Bushra, a talented sewing girl in Dhaka, as she walks through the city to deliver a new dress to a customer.