Instead, "Short Term 12" comes from a place of delicate and truthful understatement, which allows the humanity and decency of its characters—and, yes, the lessons—to shine through naturally. “That was a big stamp of approval,” he says.The short had featured a male, named Denim, as the lead supervisor of the home’s “Line Staff,” the home’s counselors who tend to the kids each day. BORN WITHOUT ARMS premiered on TLC/Discovery in 2009.The script for Destin’s second feature SHORT TERM 12 (based on the short of the same title) was one of five to win a 2010 Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship fromthe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Short Term 12 will premiere at SXSW 2013, and TheSpectacular Now recently premiered to rave reviews at Sundance 2013 and will screen again at SXSWIn 2012, Dever wrapped a two season-long arc playing “Loretta McCready” on the FX drama Justified, for which she received critical acclaim. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). He returns as "Marcus" in the feature length film by Cretton. From ‘Hill Street Blues’ in the ‘80’s to ‘Desperate Housewives’, Frantz has appeared in scores of television shows, most notably as Abe Matthisen on the #1 show ‘NCIS’, Principal Earl Carter of the long running PBS series ‘Madison Heights’ and recurring as ‘Mr. And she did.”At just 23, Brie Larson has already built an impressive career as one of the more versatile young actresses working today as she has moved effortlessly from onegenre to another with every project she takes on.Brie had two films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, “The Spectacular Now” opposite Shailene Woodley, where she plays Miles Teller’s seemingly perfectgirlfriend. Jayden distances herself from the other teenagers, as she does not intend to stay at the facility for long. In New York, he has appeared in ‘Julius Caesar’ at The Public, ‘A Love Play at The Negro Ensemble Company, ‘Daughter’ at the Manhattan Theatre Club, and ‘Slow Dance on The Killing Ground’ at The City.
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Film credits include many urban comedies from ‘Going Beserk’ with John Candy to Master P’s ‘I Got The Hook Up’. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). DRAKMAR: A VASSAL’S JOURNEY premiered on HBO Family in2007 and won the Best Documentary Award at the 2006 Comic Con. His latest film SHORT TERM 12 just won best feature at SXSW.
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. He also infuses his story with unexpected humor as the kids hassle each other—and their supervisors—on the road to healing. 40 of 55 people found this review helpful. While waiting at the hospital as Marcus is being treated, Grace breaks down.
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. She also has a loving, playful relationship with her longtime live-in boyfriend, the shaggy, foulmouthed Mason (played amiably by John Gallagher Jr.), who works alongside her as a supervisor at the center. Writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton based "Short Term 12" partly on his own experiences working at such a center, and previously made a short film on the subject. But the impending departure of one kid and the arrival of another shake everything up for her. 0/33 likes in common. There, a few years later, he created a 20 minute short for his thesis project, titled “Short Term 12” – based on his experiences at the home. Grace, a young supervisor at a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers, takes on the crises of two new residents while going through her own. Keith has been rapping since he was 11-years-old and has recently been working on a musical project called "Moors" (Kevin just booked a series regular role on FOX's SURVIVING JACK pilot and the indie feature SEX ED.