Dream Big
Our ground-breaking animated film and literacy book series “Josh’s Inspirational Journeys,” is a new and exciting vehicle for enhancing art and literacy for young children. Through people’s love for sports and arts, we bring people together from all walks of life, allowing us to build a supportive community that promotes learning and literacy for kids across the country.
Sports Film Fest is working with young artists (ages 10-21) to help create our animated films and kids books, titled “Josh’s Inspirational Journeys, Dream Big.” These animated films and books will use the power of sports and storytelling to educate and inspire the next generation.
ISFF is working with Michael Montgomery on a kids book that tells his powerful story of overcoming a congenital heart defect to play at Texas A&M and then in the NFL for the Green Bay Packers. You can view the completed book here: “Heart of a Lion.”
ISFF is working on an animated kids book that tells the powerful story of Dr. George Grant. Dr. Grant became the first Black professor at Harvard, a dentist specializing in Cleft Palates and was the inventor of the golf tee.
ISFF is partnering with Artist Donkee Boy and his “Young Art Pros” students to create an animated kids book that tells the story of the 1980’s UH basketball team, known as Phi Slama Jama. You can support our educational programming and these students by making a donation today!
Sports Film Fest has created an animated film and book celebrating the history of the Us Women’s Soccer Team’s accomplishments at the Women’s World Cup.
ISFF is working on a kids book that tells Lou Gehrig’s powerful story. The platform that sports gave Gehrig allowed him to create so much awareness around ALS that his name became synonymous with the disease. We will teach a new generation his story and ask them how they can make a positive impact on the world.
ISFF is working on an animated kids book that tells the powerful story of Jake Burton.
ISFF is working with Paralympic Swimming Champion Sophia Herzog on a kids book that tells her inspiring story.
ISFF is working on an animated kids book that tells the powerful story of Gino Bartali. Gino was a legendary Italian cyclist who risked his life to protect Jewish refugees and support the Italian resistance during World War II.
