As her thirteenth birthday nears, Ana is very happily making a behind-the-scenes documentary at the zoo her parents run and delighted that her best friend, Liv, is visiting from New Zealand, but things start to fall apart when she brings her old and new friends together.

On the road to help her mom film a documentary, Z is eager to share her summer adventure with her friends and video blog fans, but she soon finds that working on a real film set takes more focus than she expected.

Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff and weekend reenactor, is partnered with two misfits--Ella, who is on the verge of failing all her classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's lunch companion--to create a documentary about the wartime experience of a Civil War contemporary, and while they conduct research in local historical societies, collaborate on a script, and edit the film, they discover secrets about their Pennsylvania soldier and learn how to...

When Suzie Yang is chosen to make a short narrative film for the CloudSong Seattle Film Festival Young Filmmakers' Contest, she finds she must be her genuine self to make a motion picture she can be pleased with.

Xena and Xander Holmes, an American brother and sister spending a year in England, use clues in their ancestor Sherlock Holmes casebook as they try to solve the mystery of a monster threatening a peaceful country village where a documentary film is being made.

Chronicles the race for seventh-grade class president at Westside Middle School as suddenly-popular documentary-film subject Trevor Jones faces his best friend Libby Gardner and Cindy Applegate, the official school gossip.