LAKE ELSINORE -- Klynn Shelton enjoys making movies with her sisters and friends. They will grab a video camera and ad-lib fantasy stories about princesses and fairies.

The 12-year-old Elsinore Middle School sixth-grader used those movie-making skills to create a video that will be televised nationally starting Thursday.

Klynn (pronounced kay-lynn) saw a television commercial telling children they could make their own movies by visiting the Web site zimmertwins.com. So she went to her computer and, in 20 minutes or so, created a story that is scheduled to debut around 12:40 p.m. Thursday on the ION network.

It will be shown again at 1 p.m. and throughout the week on the Qubo Channel. It is also scheduled to be shown during the Qubo on NBC block Saturday morning and Qubo on Telemundo on Sunday.

Qubo offers TV, online and interactive programming for children.

Klynn was one of 12 filmmakers nationwide selected to have their videos aired. Those videos were selected from more than 40,000 that were submitted during the last year.

Klynn made the video using thought bubbles, like in a comic strip. What will be aired is a remastered 30-second version using voice actors. Her picture and voice will be seen and heard at the end of the video.

Rick Rodriguez, president and general manager of Qubo, said the producers of the Web site sorted through the tens of thousands of videos, picking the most popular based on ratings by visitors to the site.

The Qubo staff picked the winners.

"What I liked about it is she used all the various tools," Rodriguez said of Klynn's video. "Our mission is to promote literacy, which is tough to do on TV, so we figured what better way in the 21st century than telling stories with videos."

On the Web site, there are templates of actions and thought bubbles, which Klynn used to make her video.

It was her first experience with digital filmmaking, which offered her freedom she doesn't get with videotape.

"With the camera, you're actually acting. If you mess up, there's no going back," Klynn said. "On the computer, if you don't like something, you click an X and the whole slide disappears."

Klynn said she has made more than 30 videos on the site.

Her winning entry, "Magic Fortune Cookie," tells the story of Edgar and Eva Zimmer and their cat, 13.

They are sucked into the fortune cookies and teleported from their backyard to the jungle to outer space and back. They decide to get rid of the magic cookies before they find any mischief.

Klynn said the toughest part of the process was coming up with an idea and then cutting it down to fit the 32 frames that were allowed for the 30-second video. She had 45 to 50 frames originally, Klynn said.

"(The best part) was seeing the end result when I made it," she said. "And seeing how many people have viewed it (at Qubo.com)."

Besides making videos, Klynn pursues other artistic endeavors. She draws cartoons and has performed in two plays and at her church.

"I think I may be an actor. I like acting," Klynn said. "Maybe a director."

Klynn wrote and directed a Christmas show for her and sisters, Madalyn, 10, and Ashlyn, 5, and has written other scripts for the girls to perform.

She often uses her sisters as critics.

"Since (the Web site) is more of a kid thing, I get their opinion," Klynn said.

Klynn also gets direction from her parents, Jason and Christina Shelton.

"I'm immensely proud of her," her dad said. "When she got the call from Qubo that they were going to post her video, I was blown away. It will be exciting to actually see her on TV."

"She's just a very grounded person," he added. "School, church, her artwork, everything she does she does 100 percent."

Klynn's screen name on Qubo is "soccergate," coming from her experience playing club soccer and participating in the Gifted And Talented Education program at Elsinore Middle School.

Klynn's original movie can be viewed at www.zimmertwins.com/node/596177.

Contact staff writer Craig Shultz at (951) 676-4315, Ext, 2625, or cshultz@californian.com.