For the 17th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films! With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary – this is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, so don’t miss this year’s standout selection of stellar shorts!
AUDIBLE
(Directed by Matt Ogens & Geoff McLean /2020 / USA / 39 min)
A cinematic and immersive coming of age documentary following Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends as they face the pressures of senior year and grappling with the realities of venturing off into the hearing world.
LEAD ME HOME
(Directed by Pedro Kos & Jon Shenk / 2020 / USA / 39 min)
500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. This immersive, cinematic film personalizes the overwhelming issue by telling the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.
THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL
(Directed by Ben Proudfoot / 2021 / USA / 22 min)
She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball players. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women’s Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lucy Harris?
THREE SONGS FOR BENAZIR
(Directed by Elizabeth Mirzaei & Gulistan Mirzaei / 2020 / Afghanistan / 22 min)
The story of Shaista, a young man who – newly married to Benazir and living in a displacement camp in Kabul – struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family.
WHEN WE WERE BULLIES
(Directed by Jay Rosenblatt / 2021 / USA & Germany / 36 min)
A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.