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Kavi

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 19 min
Director: Gregg Helvey
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Two | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Drama, Ethnic, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Student Film: The 2010 Oscar® nominated short film, Kavi, is about a boy in India who wants to play cricket and go to school, but instead he is forced to work in a brick kiln as a modern-day slave. Unsatisfied with his fate, Kavi must choose to either accept what he's always been told, or fight for a different life even if he's unsure of the ultimate outcome.
Violence

Film Type: Documentary Feature
Runtime: 53 min
Director: Klaus Schneyder
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Three | 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Documentary, Music
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature: The history of vocal imitation of rhythm and its impact on all genres of music.
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Film Type: Animation
Runtime: 9 min
Director: Christopher Jarvis
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Five | 9:00 pm - 11:00 pm, Friday, April 8, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Nominated for Best Student Film: Frustrated attempts to bear children overwhelm the lives of an aristocratic avian couple of the early 19th century.
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Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 24 min
Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Screening Seven | 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm, Saturday, April 9, 2011, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Diversity, Drama, Foreign Film, Science Fiction
Nominated for Best Narrative Short: Set in a post-apocalyptic world in which water scarcity has extinguished life above ground, this sci fi short follows one museum curator's quest to investigate the possibility of germinating seeds beyond the confines of her repressive subterranean culture.
Some Violence

Film Type: Narrative Short
Runtime: 14 min
Director: Andrew Spieler
Screens with: Screening Twenty-One | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sunday, April 10, 2011, Screening Twelve | 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, Monday, April 11, 2011 - Best of Show
Action, Diversity, Drama, Mature Subjects, Student Film
Winner Best Student Film: In the early hours of the 1992 LA Riots, Shauna, a seasoned African-American paramedic is forced to confront an incensed and dangerous mob after her idealistic white partner, Rick, violates protocol in hopes of saving a severely wounded child.
Strong Language, Violence