Michael Kanev

A funny, heartwarming and inspirational tale of a boy who dares to dream big. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

Stella Blackstone (Ellen Page) and her best friend Albert (Michael Kanev) are twelve year-olds with ambitious intentions of creating an extremely spooky Halloween house. While checking for hints online they open up a web link that opens a doorway through which an annoying ghost (Carlos Alazraqui) leaves his ether world and enters theirs. They find they must help this ghost resolve his problems or put up with him forever. (en.wikipedia.org)

Samantha Parkington's world starts to change the day Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and her two little sisters have moved in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from completely different backgrounds, Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger, and grow to be as close as two sisters. But nothing could prepare them for the life-altering surprises that lie ahead! (imdb)

Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.