Five Winning Filmmakers From Around the World Shine Bright at the 9th ILICAFF

BALTIMORE - Sept. 29, 2025 - PRLog -- Filmmakers from the U.S., Columbia, and Australia shine bright as winners of the 9^th annual Imagination Lunchbox International Children's & Adult's Film Fests (ILICAFF), held recently from September 8 - 14, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. The ILICAFF offered free admission to the screening and awards of short films from eight different countries that included the U.S., the U.K., Netherlands, Portugal, Colombia, Canada, Mexico, and Australia. Winning films included Mariposa, by director Brook Vitovsky from the United States for "Best Film For Kids;" Evil Eye, by director Mia StarrFrank from the U.S. for  "Most Uplifting Film;" Snow Bugs directed by Jenny Shuermann from the U.S. for "Film Festival Favorite;" Who Has Taken My Cheese from director Cristian Rojas from Colombia for "Best Film By Kids," and Doomsday 2000 by director Harrison Lysaght from Australia for "Best Film Made For Adults." The growing popular film fest for young, as well as adult, filmmakers also offered a filmmaking workshop at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center in Baltimore that had virtual access; a virtual open call audition powered by Zoom, and open court community basketball games at the UA House at Fayette for fun and free giveaways. All events were hosted by ILICAFF's founder Anthony Michael Hobbs (Anthony-Michael.com), a current SAG/AFTRA member who is a multi-award-winning actor (PBS, DreamWorks) and filmmaker with over 20 awards won worldwide.

The ILICFAFF Imagination Lunchbox/Eubie Blake Filmmaking Workshops held at the Eubie Blake Cultural Center with virtual access via Zoom offered such speakers as John Wesby (Wesby One Productions) a producer at BET Networks who talked on film production; documentary film attorney Richard B. Jefferson, Esq (M.E.T.A.L. IP Law Group), whose clients include Disney, for his Ask a Lawyer Session; stuntman/director Chuck Borden (Faceplant Films) whose credits include stuntman/directing for Fast & Furious and Star Trek franchise films spoke on directing stunts, and founder Anthony Hobbs (Imagination Lunchbox, LLC), who produced and directed three shorts garnering over 20 awards, spoke on scriptwriting. The Imagination Lunchbox Virtual Open Call Auditions had a panel of casting directors that included Mark Hunter (Remarkable Productions) who has projects on TUBI; Arthur Mohammad (Chariots Productions) who has projects on Netflix, Hulu and Fandango; Alander Pulliam, Jr. (Power 98 Media Group) whose production credits include Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw and 2019 BET Awards, and Nicole Butler (A&B Productions) whose series of sitcoms for kids air on YouTube's Channel. The ILICAFF ended with the Imagination Lunchbox Open Court Community Basketball Games at the UA House at Fayette where founder Anthony Hobbs, coached the teams through two games (winners received cash prizes) and then played one-on-one with two players from the winning teams for cash prizes. Highlights of ILICAFF, in pictures, are available at https://imaginationlunchbox.com/ili-film-festival.html.

The Imagination Lunchbox International Children's Film Fest (ILICFF) was created first in 2016 by Hobbs, who started out as an actor at age four with credits that include projects for DreamWorks and PBS. It most notable role is in the PBS documentary-series "The Abolitionist" as a young Frederick Douglas. That role resulted in him attending the Emmy Awards for the film's nomination. Anthony Hobbs went on to become a young prodigy filmmaker at the age of nine garnering over 20 awards world-wide for writing, starring-in, directing and producing his own shorts, such as One Nation, and Naga Pixie. He has also produced through his company Imagination Lunchbox, LLC a short film for his former coach titled Agent Hollywood – another multi-award-winning film. Hobbs started ILICFF so that young filmmakers like himself, would have a platform to showcase their films. In, 2023, as Hobbs entered A&T University, he expanded his film fest to include the Imagination Lunchbox International Adult's Film Fest (ILIFF), to give "adult" short films made by and for adults a chance to be seen. As a result, the Imagination Lunchbox International Children's & Adult's Film Fest (ILICAFF) was created.

"Good afternoon, I participated in the film festival, and the selected pieces were truly amazing. I have to give additional kudos to the films, by children. Their creativity and vision was next level. I also want to thank you for the email follow-up and reminders. The constant communication was welcomed and appreciated. I wish you and your team continued success. Respectfully" by Jacquel Tomin (2025)

Learn more about the Imagination Lunchbox International Children's & Adult's Film Fest log onto  https://imaginationlunchbox.com/ili-film-festival.html. We will see you all in 2026!