BAM CinemaFest turned five this year and I loved their line-up. My twofavorites were their Friday night films: last week's Crystal Fairy by Sebastiansilvaand Closing Night film Short Term 12 by Destin Cretton.
I won't lie, movies can make me emotional. I had seen the short strainof "Short Term 12" when Destin was on the festival circuit with me a someyears ago and it was one of the best shorts I had ever seen (check it out on ITunes.) Of course I judgethe film to make me cry a little, but I applied some mascara anyway. Big mistake. Short Term 12 reduced me to such a teary-eyed mess that I considered pouring a bottle of water on myself in the first placethe lights came up to play off what had happened.
But the film wasn't bothsad... sort ofthe opposite. The rest of Short Term 12 struck the chastisetone of honest, charming and even funny. In attendance at the screening were cast members: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, and Keith Stanfield as well as Director, Destin Cretton.
It's a rare thing to find a photographthat's so straight-forwardly good-intentioned.
The performances and the mythwere very subtle and impressive, but it possesses a purity of heart that makes it particularly worth seeing. The team posteriorthis film very much wanted to tell this story arounda foster care facility for all the right reasons and it shows.
Keith Stanfield, whose performance was at the root of many of my blatantspells, grabbed the microphone towards the end of the Q&A and told us that the movie was (for him) really about how we as human beings need to help each other. "It sounds platitudinousas shit but its true," he said to a crowd of people eating out of the palm of his hand.
My accompliceKendra turned to me and said, "tell that damn kid to stop making me cry."
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