The San Diego International Kid's Film Festival promotes the idea of entertainment with education. Supported by many across the world, the festival supports the entertainment and education industries by showcasing international films, and gives young, aspiring filmmakers a channel to communicate to an international community. The resulting collaboration produces a unique multi-cultural experience, engaging young viewers with positive media, as a diverse education.

SILPIX is embarking on a adventure to bring together the cultures of India and America together through films. SILPIX is hosting its first Children’s Film festival of India in Chicago in the month of March 2011 in association with Children’s India. During the festival, there will be other activities like the workshops, movie making, introductory classes and other such activities introduced.

SILPIX Children's Film festival is first of its kind in US - 1st Indian Children’s Film Festival in America and SILPIX has plans to conduct this annually. This year's festival will be held at Visual Performance Arts Center, Elgin Community College, 1700 Spartan Drive, Elgin, IL 60123 and the festival is an all-day event on Saturday, March 26th and Sunday, March 27th, 2011

The film festival will showcase more than 26 award winning children movies from India in various Indian languages. In addition, we plan to screen other documentary and feature films from US. All the foreign language movies will have English subtitles.

SILPIX is also conducting a Talent Hunt in movie making as a part of this film festival.
·         The deadline for submitting short films is March 15th.
·         The winner(s) of the talent hunt will be considered for future SILPIX movie productions.
·         More information about talent hunt is available at http://www.silpix.com/index.php/film-festival/talent-hunt.

The Lahore International Children’s Film Festival is annual event to showcase the best of local and international cinema by and for children in Pakistan.