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March 2 - 5, 2023

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Short Term 12

  • Director: Destin Daniel Cretton
  • Writer: Destin Daniel Cretton
  • Type: Features
  • Year: 2014
  • Country: US
  • Language: English
  • Length: 96 minutes

Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace, a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge. But Grace’s own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throws her life into unforeseen confusion, made all the sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection.

Preceded by the Makers short on foster youth advocate Lydia Cincore-Templeton

Date: Saturday, February 8, 6PM
Location: Northwest Corner, 120th & Broadway, 5th Floor 

Producer Joshua Astrachan will join the audience for a post screening discussion.

Editor: Nat Sanders
Cinematographer: Brett Pawlak
Executive Producers: Frederick W. Green, David Kaplan and Douglas R. Stone
Producers: Joshua Astrachan, Asher Goldstein, Ron Najor and Maren Olson
Featuring: Brie Larson and Kaitlyn Dever

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