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Details about the film-within-a-film:
As I said, it's a Native American legend about a mother bear.
It was an origin myth, about how a couple of islands or lakes or hills emerged from a mama bear and her cub, because she had rescued him. Something like that.
Our boys filmed it like so: the Native American sat by a fire and told the whole story, with a deep and calm voice. The story was about the mama bear's love so after the bears became two islands (or lakes or hills), those islands or lakes or hills are still places full of love.
Then the kids (including the sister) were given access to some of the real life bears the Native American had in the preserve.
They had a cub and an adult, they filmed them in the water to later edit them as if they were emerging after the mama rescued the cub. Since the world was young and without form at the moment of the legend, they wanted to have the bears surounded by fog for some shots, so they made a fire and, just out of frame, one of the kids fanned the smoke into the front of the lenses.
The adult bear was male, the Native American guy explained that a male that knows the cub is less likely to attack him, and a female probably would because she would know it's not her cub.
The kids said "well, male or not when we film it it's gonna look like the mama bear. No one is gonna be that much of an expert to know its a male". Even the girl said "it's not like girl bears wear skirts, so any bear looks like a female if we say that's what it is".
And the final cut of the film is footage of the bears edited over the narration, mixed with shots of the Native American by the fire. It was actually pretty cool.
