Official Selection Kids First! Festival

January 14, 2023, San Francisco, California — “Kris The Cat” is an official selection of the 2023 Kids First! Film Festival. The film has been reviewed and curated by the program (see Reviews page). The acceptance opens the possibility that Kris The Cat will be included in Children’s Film Festivals curated by Kids First! around the world.

The Coalition for Quality Children's Media is a national, nonprofit 501(c) (3) organization, founded in 1991, whose mission is to teach children critical viewing skills and to increase the visibility and availability of quality children's media.

The Coalition's KIDS FIRST! program evaluates, rates, and endorses films, digital media, TV shows, and other media using volunteer, community-based juries of adults and children from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and offers its ratings and reviews to consumers for free in a variety of ways – on our website, blogs, social media, YouTube Channel and through partnerships with other online and print publications.