Lights, Camera….

Few would argue that little ones have the most magical of imaginations (when not deadened by hours of mind numbing media that creates this Stepffordian shared One Brain that gives me the willys).

But there are films that are now made by our smallest creators, that I think are worth a mention.

From Little Creatures Films:

“Little Creatures is a film production company that invites 3-10 year old children to collaborate with filmmakers to produce imaginative live action films told in the children’s voice. These movies are shot on location in various natural settings, with the children’s spontaneous interactions recorded as dialogue and their own poetic descriptions of their actions recorded as voiceover narration. Through all of these videos run threads of mystery and wonder, the representation of childhood as something beautiful, poetic, and profound, and the beauty and power of the natural world to inform young children’s play and storytelling/myth-making.  Little Creatures films are a response to the recent overflow of interactive media on the Internet, the advent of digital television, and the gross lack of media education for young children, particularly within the pre-school, kindergarten and first grade age group.  The films aim to help develop children’s play into deeper realms of problem solving and multidisciplinary learning by encouraging them to spend more of the crucial phase of early childhood development in spaces that they create from the ground up, from the most authentic and less contrived cultural stimuli possible.”

Do you have a future Capra or Fellini in your house?