Part of Shorts Program 8: Student Short Film Competition
2011
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Provocative and inventive, the Student Shorts Program represents the best films being made in colleges and universities both in the Bay Area and around the world. This collection showcases a diverse range of subjects and styles - from high-tension films with depth (The Banana Monologues, Sobre la Mesa, ¡Una Carrerita, Doctor!), to smart and touching films about humanity (The Pool Party, No Robots, Loop Planes), to meditations on life (The Eagleman Stag), love and loss (The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock) and finding one's place in the world (Terrebone, Jimbo).
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Comedy shorts pack an abrupt punch that is sure to leave you in a fit of laughter. Boys will be boys when we find that a child?s imagination is even more powerful than he realizes; a mischievous teen starts a disastrous chain reaction; and in a classic display of crossbow skill, a boy hits an unexpected target. Watch hilarious family mishaps when two Australian war vets take on a town bully; a narcissistic father tries to shirk his paternal duties; and white collar prisoners comically clash with a blue collar system.
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If you really want to effect change in the world, you have to understand that Utopia is dead.
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Puzzles, riddles, weird tales and wild rides: hold onto your seat.
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From around the world, universes of imagination.
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The best cinema provides connection and escape. In this series of short films, ranging from lyrical to devastating, we evade external menace and internal demons to find acceptance, humanity, joy and love. We are captivated by the secret, intense culture of children playing in The Game, oblivious to distant adult concerns of war. The troublesome Liberian orphan who is Son of None, adorably chases an escaped baby goat through an empty church. A hard-boiled South African boy searches for understanding in a world without adult guidance in Protect the Nation.
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You can live straight ahead, but sometimes the world is slanted.
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What did you expect?We all have expectations, and everyone else has expectations of us. Examining the expectations of both characters and audience, this wonderful series explores what happens when children go beyond what their parents planned, when husbands fail to remain acceptable, when reality is not what it seems and when the people we count on begin to depend on us. They are stories of friends, families, fears and folly. The reasonable and the unfulfillable mix here in a program that will make as many requests of the viewer as of the viewed.
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Unshakeable Margaret Flore and her fanciful childhood self work in tandem to fulfill their promise to always set things straight.Film sponsored by the Applied Materials Foundation.
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Were it not for the actions of one Polish Colonel, we might all be living in the wreckage of a nuclear war.