These screenings are co-hosted by Shine Global and Macaulay's Honors College. The Shine Global Resilience Awards is an annual event that recognizes and celebrates the films and filmmakers that highlight the resilience and strength of children in the face of adversity. This year's awards are sponsored in part by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sunset Marquis Hotel.

The 5 nominee screenings are as follows:

September 5, 2024 - Searching for Amani: (United States, Kenya) | 80 min (2024) Directed by Nicole Gormley, Debra ArokoProducers Nicole Gormley, Peter Goetz, Mungai Kiroga, Caryn Capoto. A 13-year-old aspiring journalist investigates his father’s mysterious murder within the boundaries of one of Kenya’s largest wildlife conservancies. As a ravaging drought encroaches, his quest to find the killer shifts, and an activist is born as the collateral damage of a warming world is revealed.

September 10, 2024 - Kensuke's Kingdom: (United Kingdom) | 84 min (2023) Directed by Neil Boyle, Kirk HendryProducers Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding, Adrian Politowski, Martin Metz, Stephan Roelants, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie, Sarah Radclyffe, Barnaby Spurrier. A young boy, shipwrecked on a remote island, discovers he is not alone when he encounters a mysterious Japanese man who has lived there since the end of World War II. As dangerous invaders appear on the horizon, it becomes clear they must join forces to save their fragile paradise.

September 17, 2024 - La Suprema: (Colombia) | 84 min (2023) Directed by Felipe Holguín CaroProduced by María Teresa Gaviria. In a town erased from the maps where there's not even electricity, a girl dreams of boxing. When she learns her uncle will box for the world title and it will be broadcast live on TV, she and the community will do everything to watch the fight, while battling oblivion.

September 24, 2024 - Daughters: (United States) | 104 min (2024) Directed by Angela Patton, Natalie RaeProducers Natalie Rae, Lisa Mazzotta, Justin Benoliel, James Cunningham, Mindy Goldberg, Sam Bisbee, Kathryn Everett, Laura Choi Raycroft. Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, D.C. jail.

October 1, 2024 - JessZilla: (United States) | 84 min (2023) Directed by Emily Sheskin. Produced by Ben Kainz. Jesselyn Silva is a 3x national boxing champion. As Jesselyn is on the cusp of making the Junior Olympic team, she is forced to face her toughest battle yet - a cancer diagnosis.

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