Third season premieres Friday, May 8, 2015 on KQED 9.
April 24, 2015 – KQED announces the third season of its national production Film School Shorts, a half-hour weekly series that showcases short student films from across the country. The 10-episode season premieres in the Bay Area on Friday, May 8 at 11pm on KQED 9 and features some of the best short films coming out of schools including NYU, Columbia University, California Institute of the Arts, University of Michigan, UCLA, USC, American Film Institute, Florida State University and the School of Visual Arts. The short films represent a wide range of styles and content and introduce vibrant young filmmakers that are soon to make an impact in the industry. The upcoming season includes three Student Academy Award winners (Above the Sea, Un Mundo para Raúl and Nani), and many others have been recognized by major film festivals, including SXSW, Tribeca, Palm Springs, Aspen ShortsFest and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
The season kicks off with the BIFA winner and BAFTA-nominated film, The Kármán Line, a can’t-miss drama starring Olivia Colman (Broadchurch, Peep Show, Hot Fuzz) and Shaun Dooley (The Awakening, Broadchurch, Misfits), about a mother who contracts an unusual illness and begins to rise gradually into the air. Above the Sea, winner of the Gold Medal at the 2014 Student Academy Awards and the Golden Reel Award for Best Short in the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, follows a young woman who must decide how far she is willing to go to exact revenge on a murderous policeman.
Upcoming episodes include Student Academy Award winner, Nani, about a young street artist who befriends an elderly woman and introduces her to the exhilarating rush of graffiti art; the Student Academy Award-winner, Un Mundo para Raúl, in which a game of power, pride and class wages between two teenage boys ; and 11-Minute Mile, which brings us into the harrowingly claustrophobic moments during the 2013 Marathon bombings in Boston.