Student Shorts

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Offered for the first time, Cinequest Student Film Competition represents a highly entertaining and thought-provoking mix of student films, covering a wide variety of subject matters that are sure to capture the hearts and minds of any audience.Shadows, a film by director Mitchell Levine from the American Film Institute, centers on emotionally charged events that take place in a Nazi extermination camp during World War II. Love Match, an informative yet powerfully intriguing short documentary by Anita Chabria from the University of California, Berkeley, portrays the story of a young lady who broke a 700 hundred-year-old Indian tradition for love. Carl Pfirman, who will receive his Masters of Arts degree in Film Directing from the University of California, Los Angeles, directs The Confession, an intimate portrait of a gay couple who have issues about commitment and faith. The unique lineup of student films guarantees this year's Cinequest audience diversity as well as quality filmmaking technology from today's brilliant student filmmakers.