Kids Screening Program
Sunday 11 February
From 6am AEST
Theatre 1, HOTA
Jump start your Sunday with a selection of Australia’s most iconic kids’ programs. Beginning from 6am, there’s no better way to start your day at the AACTA Festival than joining us in Cinema 1 with the entire family to watch Australia’s most beloved kids’ shows! Featuring animated programs for the smallest ones and classics that have entertained generations of Aussie children, there’s a program for every family member at this Kids Screening Program.
While this event is complimentary, please register ahead of time at the link below. Attendees can enter or leave the Kids Screening Program at any time by showing their tickets on the day.
NOTE: Registrations must be made in advance. Please register one ticket per family member, including children.
Little J & Big Cuz (From 6am)
Little J, he’s five, and Big Cuz, she’s nine. They’re a couple of Indigenous Australian kids living with their Nanna and Old Dog. Little J and Big Cuz are busy with the ups and downs of the playground and classroom. There’s always something surprising going on, whether at school, in the backyard... or beyond. The gaps in Nanna’s ramshackle fence lead to Saltwater, Desert, and Freshwater Country. With the help of Nanna and their teacher Ms Chen, Little J, and Big Cuz are finding out all about culture, community, and country.
Distributed by NITV | ABC
Eddie’s Lil’ Homies (From 6:15am)
Eddie’s Lil’ Homies joins Eddie and his ragtag group of friends on their playground adventures as they navigate the fun and challenges of friendship. Outside of home and away from school, their friends are family, and the playground is their universe. It’s a word of competition, imagination, and fantasy, where anything and everything is possible, where imaginary friends can be real, games of rock paper scissors can take on stupendous importance, and kindness, empathy, and a good rap can help put anything right.
Distributed by NITV | Netflix
Little Lunch (From 6:40am)
Little Lunch tackles the big issues in the playground. Who gets to go on the monkey bars? Who gets to join whose club? Who should be the class captain? Little Lunch tells stories that may seem small to adults but loom large for kids.
Distributed by ABC
Mortified (From 6:55am)
On the brink of adolescence, a girl has a lot to deal with; a changing body, a flood of hormones, relentless judgment by her peers, even perhaps the stirrings of a first, unrequited crush…
Taylor Fry is confronted by the lot. She’s a lively, smart-lipped kid with plenty of courage and attitude, but she feels she doesn’t belong. She’s an outsider in her wacky family… (and with a father known locally as “The Underpant King” who could blame her?). She’s a black sheep at school and a misfit amongst her seemingly perfect neighbours.
What’s different about Taylor is her vivid imagination. Under pressure, she retreats into a rich inner world, animals suddenly talk, Egyptian mummies come to life, her nose grows like Pinocchio’s, and she takes career advice from St Francis of Assisi.
Distributed by ACTF
Round The Twist (From 7:20am)
When the Twist kids - Pete, Linda, and Bronson - and their Dad leave the city for a quiet life in the coastal town of Port Niranda, they get more than they bargained for. The lighthouse the Twists have moved into is haunted, and Port Niranda is a town where the weird and unexpected regularly occurs. Ghosts, Vikings, magical underpants, and runaway shadows await.
Distributed by ACFT
Bluey (From 7:40am)
Bluey follows the adventures of a lovable and inexhaustible six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy who lives with her Dad, Mum and four-year-old little sister, Bingo. It showcases the joyful simplicity that can be found in families, by bringing to life how children learn and grow through play.