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Green Screens: Cinema Planeta
June 1 - 3, 2012
12-year-olds Santiago and Mariana discover a dangerous group of animal traffickers operating in their area and set out to save the wolves in this children’s film festival favorite.
Santiago, who recently lost his mother, and his best friend Mariana, who is deaf, inadvertently videotape a group of dangerous animal traffickers while out playing detective. They realize what they have discovered when the news reports endangered wolf cubs stolen from a reserve. With the aid of animal spirit talismans that Santiago’s mom left him, and Mariana’s lip reading ability, they set out to save the wolves. A favorite on the children’s film festival circuit! Rated G (Ages 10+) with scene of animal death, use of tranquilizer gun, brief violence.
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