The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action

Director: Chris Overton, Katja Benrath, Kevin Wilson, Jr., Derin Seale, Reed Van Dyk.

2018, 96

 

DeKalb Elementary is the true story of a man who walked into an Atlanta elementary school with an AK-47, and the level-headed office worker who tried to appeal to his humanity and prevent violence. The Silent Child looks at a middle class family’s inability to accept their ‘different’ – in this case, deaf – daughter. In another true – and surprisingly uplifting story (Watu Wote: All of Us), a group of militants take over a bus near the Somali border and threaten to kill any non-Muslims. Haunted by the case of a young black teen accused of whistling at a white woman in 1955 Mississippi, My Nephew Emmett connects to the fear still felt by African Americans in 2018. And on a lighter note of playfully shifting realities from Australia, The Eleven O’Clock features a psychiatrist whose next patient believes he’s a therapist…or is it the other way around?