The national public television series produced by KQED.
The season premieres Monday, April 15, at 11pm on KQED 9 with the Oscar winner God of Love.
KQED Public Television is proud to announce its national production Film School Shorts, a half-hour weekly series that showcases short student films from across the country. Each filmmaker has the potential to become the next star filmmaker and each short film will make you laugh, gasp and empathize, sometimes in the same breath. The featured films — quirky comedies, slice-of-life dramas and hard-hitting thrillers — have won awards (how does an Oscar sound?) and wowed audiences at some of the most acclaimed film festivals in the world: Cannes, Sundance, Toronto and South by Southwest. The series premieres Monday, April 15, at 11pm on KQED 9 and will air on public television stations around the country in the upcoming months (check local listings). Meet the filmmakers, learn more about the films and view certain shorts online at kqed.org/fss, and follow Film School Shorts on Facebook and Twitter.
Film School Shorts is part of IndieNOW. Turn to KQED 9 on Mondays starting at 10pm for the best in independent film, including POV, Independent Lens, Truly CA, and ImageMakers.
The premiere episode of Film School Shorts titled Okay, Cupid includes two brilliant short films and looks at that favorite topic of filmmakers: romance. Emily Carmichael’s The Hunter and the Swan Discuss Their Meeting explores courtship by inviting us to have dinner with two couples, a hipster couple from Brooklyn and a mythical hunter and his girlfriend, who shapeshifts into a swan. Needless to say, things don’t go too well. And Luke Matheny’s Academy Award–winning God of Love introduces us to Raymond Goodfellow, a lounge-singing darts champion whose hopeless attempts at wooing bandmate Kelly Moran are solved by a mysterious, magical box of love darts. . . Or so he thinks.