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47-483: The Center for Advanced Film Studies (later the AFI Conservatory) opened its doors at Greystone Mansion on September 23, 1969. Harold Lloyd screened his film The Freshman and spoke with AFI Fellows on the school's first day. The first class included Terrence Malick , Caleb Deschanel , and Paul Schrader . In 1973, filmmaker John Cassavetes was the first filmmaker-in-residence while editing A Woman Under

94-498: A weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Germain Lussier of Slashfilm wrote of the film, "The whole thing just feels perfect or magical, a shining example of what cinema is all about", adding, "The performances are mindblowing, the writing sharp, and the direction beautiful. It's a very special movie." In Variety , critic Peter Debruge wrote, "the stunning SXSW fest winner puts

141-517: A casting call through Craigslist and won the role after sending in a cell phone video audition. The film was shot over 20 days in September 2012 (filming began on 9 September 2012). Filming took place in Los Angeles , and scenes set at the group home were shot at a former short-stay facility located near the neighborhood of Sylmar . The film was edited by Nat Sanders as it was filmed. Both

188-1170: A faculty of working professionals including Todd Cherniawsky (art director, Star Wars: The Last Jedi ), Stan Chervin (writer, Moneyball ), Destin Daniel Cretton , (director, Short Term 12 ), Matthew Friedman (editor, The Farewell ), Joe Garrity (production designer, Best in Show ), Susan Littenberg (editor Easy A ), Stephen Lighthill (recipient 2018 ASC President's Award), Elvis Mitchell (film critic), Michele Mulroney (writer, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ), Martin Nicholson (editor, The Alienist ), Lauren Polizzi (art director, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 & The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 ), Louis Provost (VP Production, Walt Disney Studios ), Patricia Riggen (director The 33 ), Russell Schwartz (marketing executive on films including Chappaquiddick ), Anna Thomas (co-writer El Norte ), Jennie Tugend, (producer, Free Willy ), Janet Yang (producer, The Joy Luck Club ). The Harold Lloyd Master Seminar series, named after

235-438: A frankness that acknowledges the dramatic extremes in these lives without needing to parade it before the audience." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times also praised Cretton's direction, saying he "brings you into this coed group home and the lives of its inhabitants casually, with images and scenes that, no matter how transparently considered, feel as if they had been caught on the fly." Brie Larson's performance as Grace

282-452: A major hub for discourse on cinema on the African continent. Short Term 12 Short Term 12 is a 2013 American independent drama film written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton . It is adapted from Cretton's short film of the same name, produced in 2009. The film stars Brie Larson as Grace Howard, a young supervisor of a group home for troubled teenagers. The film was

329-407: A medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies . Film studies is less concerned with advancing proficiency in film production than it is with exploring the narrative , artistic, cultural, economic, and political implications of the cinema. In searching for these social-ideological values, film studies takes a series of critical approaches for

376-692: A minimum of three short films in their first year and a thesis film in their second year. Production Design - Attracting artists from architecture, interior design, theater design and other related fields, the Production Design curriculum focuses on the creative process of visually and physically developing cinematic environments. Screenwriting - Screenwriting Fellows conceive and write multiple projects in features, short films, long and short-form TV drama and comedy as well as webisodes and other Internet innovations. Fellows learn to collaborate with Directing and Producing classmates. The AFI Conservatory has

423-534: A therapist. She is shown viewing an ultrasound of her fetus with Mason. Mason tells the rest of the staff about running into Marcus, who is doing well and has a girlfriend. Short Term 12 was originally conceived by Destin Daniel Cretton as a short film based on his experiences as a line staff worker at a group facility for teenagers where he had worked for two years; it served as his thesis project for his master's degree in film at San Diego State University . The short film ran for 22 minutes and premiered at

470-433: A thorough understanding of the production process, script to screen. Editing - Editing Fellows master the skills needed to be editors, assistant editors and post-production producers while learning the technical, aesthetic and collaborative aspects of post-production with a primary focus on storytelling. Producing - Producing Fellows study all aspects of creative, entrepreneurial production while developing and producing

517-461: A widest release of 75 theaters, and $ 632,064 outside the United States for a total of $ 1,645,164. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 98% based on 172 reviews, with an average rating of 8.36/10. The site's critical consensus reads, " Short Term 12 is an emphatic, revealing drama that pulls audiences into the perspective of neglected youths." On Metacritic the film has

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564-584: Is angry at the decision to send Jayden back to her father, but her boss maintains that Jayden denied that she was abused by him. Later that day, Grace finds that Marcus has attempted to commit suicide after the death of his fish. While waiting at the hospital as Marcus is being treated, Grace breaks down. Mason becomes upset for her refusing to talk to him about how she feels; instead, she tells him that she no longer wants to marry him and that she plans to have an abortion. She returns to Jayden's father's house and breaks in, intending to kill him while he sleeps, but she

611-410: Is interrupted by Jayden, who suggests that they smash his car instead. Grace tells Jayden that she was sexually abused by her own father. After Jayden shows Grace bruises from blows by her father, they return together to Short Term 12, where Jayden reports her father for physical abuse. Grace goes home to apologize to Mason, who tells her that Marcus will recover. Several weeks later, Grace starts seeing

658-627: The 2009 Sundance Film Festival , where it won the Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking. After graduating from film school, Cretton decided to adapt the short into a feature-length screenplay, which won one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ' five Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in 2010. The largest change Cretton made when adapting the short film into a longer screenplay was changing

705-776: The Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam also conduct scholarly projects alongside educational and outreach programs. Film festivals play an important role in the study of film and may include discourses on topics such as film style, aesthetics, representation, production, distribution, social impact, history, archival and curation. Major festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival offer extensive programs with talks and panel discussions. They also inform film historiography, most actively through retrospectives and historical sections such as Cannes Classics. Film festival FESPACO serves as

752-819: The South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas , where it won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards in the Narrative Feature category and was purchased for distribution by Cinedigm . Its international premiere was held at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2013, where it received a standing ovation. In theaters, the film was given a platform release : on August 23, it was released in Los Angeles and New York City , expanding

799-529: The Top Ten Independent Films of 2013. It earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations, including Best Female Lead for Larson. Grace Howard is the young supervisor of Short Term 12, a group home for troubled teenagers. She lives with her long-term boyfriend and coworker, Mason, but finds it difficult to open up to him emotionally. When Grace finds out she is pregnant, she schedules an appointment for an abortion; she eventually tells Mason about

846-576: The USC School of Cinematic Arts in 2006. Today, film studies are taught worldwide and has grown to encompass numerous methods for teaching history, culture and society. Many liberal arts colleges and universities, as well as American high schools, contain courses specifically focused on the analysis of film. Modern-day film studies increasingly reflect popular culture and art, and a wide variety of curricula have emerged for analysis of critical approaches used in film. Students are typically expected to form

893-505: The #1 film school in the United States. AFI Conservatory is a five-term Master of Fine Arts program in six disciplines: Cinematography - Encompasses training from pre-visualization to advanced image manipulation and control, Cinematography Fellows develop their storytelling skills using formats ranging from digital video to 16mm and 35mm film cameras. Directing - With a focus on narrative filmmaking, Directing Fellows learn diverse directing styles, techniques and strategies as they gain

940-420: The 20th century, decades after the invention of motion pictures . Rather than focusing on the technical aspects of film production, film studies are concentrated on film theory , which approaches film critically as an art, and the writing of film historiography . Because film became an invention and industry only in the late 19th century, a generation of film producers and directors existed significantly before

987-476: The Grand Jury and Audience Awards for a Narrative Feature. The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 23, 2013, by Cinedigm . Critics praised its realism and intimacy, and especially Larson's performance and Cretton's screenplay and direction. The film is considered one of the best of 2013, appearing on several critics' year-end lists. It was listed by the National Board of Review as one of

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1034-678: The Influence . In 1975, filmmaker Ján Kadár , director of the Oscar -winning film The Shop on Main Street , became the Conservatory's second filmmaker-in-residence. In 2013, Emmy and Oscar -winning director, producer and screenwriter James L. Brooks ( As Good as It Gets , Broadcast News , Terms of Endearment ) joined the AFI Conservatory as Artistic Director, where he provides leadership for

1081-508: The United States offer a major program in film studies. This number continues to grow each year with new interest in film studies. Institutions offering film degrees as part of their arts or communications curricula differ from institutions with dedicated film programs. The success of the American film industry has contributed to the popularity of academic film studies in the U.S., and film-related degrees often enable graduates to pursue careers in

1128-523: The ability to detect conceptual shifts in film, a vocabulary for the analysis of film form and style, a sense of ideological dimensions of film and an awareness of extra textual domains and possible direction of film in the future. Universities often allow students to participate in film research and attend seminars of specialized topics to enhance their critical abilities. The curriculum of tertiary-level film studies programs often include but are not limited to: A total of 144 tertiary institutions in

1175-468: The abstract and practical approaches. The German Deutsche Filmakademie Babelsberg was founded during the era of the Third Reich in 1938. Its lecturers included Willi Forst and Heinrich George . Students were required to create films in order to complete their studies at the academy. A movement away from Hollywood productions in the 1950s turned cinema into a more artistic independent endeavor. It

1222-467: The academic analysis that followed in later generations. Early film schools focused on the production and subjective critique of film rather than on the critical approaches, history and theory used to study academically. The concept of film studies arose as a means of analyzing the formal aspects of film as the films were created. Established in 1919, the Moscow Film School was the first school in

1269-584: The analysis of production, theoretical framework, context, and creation. Also, in studying film, possible careers include critic or production. Overall the study of film continues to grow, as does the industry on which it focuses. Academic journals publishing film studies work include Sight & Sound , Film Comment , Film International , CineAction , Screen , Journal of Cinema and Media Studies , Film Quarterly , Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, and Journal of Film and Video . Film studies as an academic discipline emerged in

1316-405: The facility for long. When her father fails to pick her up on her birthday, she reacts violently toward the staff. After her outburst, she sits in the "cool-down room" with Grace, who shows Jayden her own scars from cutting herself. That night, Jayden leaves the facility in the middle of her birthday celebrations. Unable to force her to return, Grace follows Jayden to her father's house. After finding

1363-841: The film program. Brooks' artistic role at the AFI Conservatory has a rich legacy that includes Daniel Petrie, Jr. , Robert Wise and Frank Pierson . Former Deans of the AFI Conservatory include Robert Mandel , Jan Schuette and Richard Gladstein . Susan Ruskin is the current Dean of the AFI Conservatory and Executive Vice President of AFI. Among those AFI has bestowed Honorary Degrees upon during its annual Commencement ceremony are Maya Angelou , John Williams , Ken Burns , Sherry Lansing , Sydney Pollack , Clint Eastwood , Jeffrey Katzenberg , Kathleen Kennedy , Spike Lee , Rita Moreno , and Quentin Tarantino . AFI Conservatory thesis films have been nominated for 10 Academy Awards and earned 2 wins. In 2023, The Hollywood Reporter ranked AFI as

1410-421: The film's honesty and plausibility. Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian , on the other hand, criticized the film's credibility, describing it as "well intentioned, but somehow inauthentic" with a "too-cute-to-be-true ending". The Hollywood Reporter 's John DeFore called the film "genuinely moving" and "effortlessly balanced ... Brett Pawlak's handheld camerawork and Cretton's unsentimental direction have

1457-595: The first leading performance of Larson's career. Cretton based Short Term 12 on his own experience working in a group facility for teenagers. He wrote and produced a short film exploring this and later adapted it into a feature-length screenplay. While Larson and John Gallagher, Jr. won their roles after auditioning through Skype , most of the children featured in the film were cast through open casting calls . Filming took place over twenty days in Los Angeles , California in September 2012. Short Term 12 premiered on March 10, 2013 at South by Southwest , where it won

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1504-494: The house empty, they return to Short Term 12. When Jayden reads Grace a cryptic story she has written, Grace begins to suspect that Jayden was abused by her father. At a party hosted by Mason's foster parents, he proposes to Grace, who accepts. The following morning, Grace is upset by a phone call that reveals her father is being released from prison. She refuses to be consoled by Mason. She arrives at Short Term 12 to discover that Jayden has been picked up by her father overnight. She

1551-546: The influential magazine Cahiers du Cinéma , wrote: "Jerry Lewis [...] is the only one in Hollywood doing something different, the only one who isn't falling in with the established categories, the norms, the principles. [...] Lewis is the only one today who's making courageous films." A catalyst in the success and stature of academic film studies has been large donations to universities by successful commercial filmmakers. For example, director George Lucas donated $ 175 million to

1598-428: The lead character's gender: Denim, a man loosely based on Cretton himself (played by Brad William Henke ), became Grace, a young woman and the facility's supervisor. Cretton researched similar facilities and interviewed former employees for the film, noting that the script featured stories directly told by children in these facilities from his interviews. Brie Larson auditioned for the role of Grace via Skype after

1645-456: The next weekend to Phoenix , Washington, D.C. , Philadelphia , Boston and Berkeley , and progressively expanding to more cities until its widest release on September 13. The film grossed $ 56,206 in its opening weekend, playing in four theaters, with a per-theater average of $ 14,052. Overall, it earned a total of $ 1,013,100 in North America over a total of 26 weeks in theaters, with

1692-492: The original cut of the film and the shortened director's cut were over 2 hours long, whereas Cretton wanted the final cut to be under 100 minutes. Sanders said that the original cut of the film felt too heavy and "made you feel pretty depressed about humanity", so a number of scenes were deleted or trimmed to "lighten up" the film's mood, with a final running time of 96 minutes. Short Term 12 premiered in March 2013 at

1739-447: The original short film to reprise his role in the feature. Cretton struggled to contact Stanfield when casting the film in 2012—Stanfield had stopped acting, left his managers, and did not own a cell phone—but Cretton was eventually able to reach him by email to tape an audition. Most of the children featured in the film were cast through open casting calls, and most had no prior acting experience. Alex Calloway, who played Sammy, found

1786-426: The pregnancy; he is overjoyed. She does not tell him she plans to have an abortion . At their facility, Grace and Mason focus their efforts on Marcus, a resident who is about to turn 18 and is struggling with the prospect of leaving the facility. Grace bonds with Jayden, a recent arrival at Short Term 12 who has a history of self-harm. Jayden distances herself from the other teenagers, as she does not intend to stay at

1833-485: The production of film, especially directing and producing films. Courses often combine alternate media, such as television or new media , in combination with film studies. Film-studies programs at all levels are offered worldwide, primarily in the countries in the Global North . In many cases, film studies can be found in departments of media studies or communication studies . Film archives and museums such as

1880-458: The recent Park City competition lineup to shame ... this compelling human drama finds fresh energy in the inspirational-teacher genre, constantly revealing new layers to its characters." In a review for the Los Angeles Times , Kenneth Turan described Short Term 12 as "a small wonder", "a film of exceptional naturalness and empathy", and "moving and intimate", offering particular praise to

1927-410: The script had been sent to her; John Gallagher, Jr. also won his role after a Skype conversation with Cretton, calling the screenplay "probably the best script that I've been sent, ever". Larson and Gallagher prepared for their roles by shadowing line staff at a group home similar to that in the film, and collaborated to create backstories for their characters. Lakeith Stanfield was the only actor from

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1974-491: The silent film star who gave the first seminar, takes place on campus and runs throughout the academic year. It brings AFI Conservatory Fellows together with artists to share their work and experiences in an informal setting. The program has graduated more than 5,000 Fellows. AFI Conservatory alumni include: Film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical , historical , and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and

2021-465: The trauma and pain underneath, which is the first step toward healing from it." Despite the universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike, Short Term 12 was completely shunned by every major industry awards organization from receiving a nomination, especially at the Academy Awards . Major criticism was drawn towards the perceived snub of Brie Larson , whose performance was widely acclaimed and

2068-467: The world to focus on film. In the United States, the USC School of Cinematic Arts , established in 1929, was the first cinematic-based school, which was created in agreement with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . It was also the first to offer an academic major in film in 1932, but the program lacked many of the distinctions associated with contemporary film study. Universities began to implement cinema-related curricula without separation of

2115-463: Was listed on many film critics' top ten lists. The Writers Guild Foundation listed Cretton's screenplay as one of the best in 2010s film and television. The script was praised as "loaded with genuine emotion and nonstop empathy. [...] it's such a great script to read for guidance in how characters grow to open-up and bond with each other. Many of the characters, including Grace, begin the story abrasive, defensive or closed-off, but slowly pivot to reveal

2162-483: Was singled out for praise by critics. Katie Walsh of Indiewire wrote, "[Larson] manages to convey her character as someone fierce and strong and steely, and also utterly fragile, delicate, scared and broken ... It's an incredible emotional and physical performance, and she's a whirlwind." Empire critic Ian Freer felt that Larson gave "a whirling dervish of a performance ... She, like the film, breaks your heart and raises your spirit in one fell swoop." Short Term 12

2209-457: Was the creation of the auteur theory , which examines film as the director's vision and art, that broadened the scope of academic film studies to a worldwide presence in the 1960s. In 1965, film critic Robin Wood , in his writings on Alfred Hitchcock , declared that Hitchcock's films contained the same complexities of Shakespeare 's plays. Similarly, French director Jean Luc Godard , a contributor to

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