KCET’s Fine Cut Festival of Films Announces 2023 Student Finalists and Episode Schedule (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comSophia Scorziello editor Los Angeles-based pubcaster KCET has revealed its student finalists and episode line up for the 24th season of Fine Cut Festival of Films, an annual showcase and celebration of Southern California’s young filmmakers.
The series of six, one-hour blocks on KCET will broadcast collections of short films from the student finalists beginning at 10 p.m.
PT on Sept. 22 through Oct. 27. This year’s finalists were narrowed down from over 350 short films submissions from more than 40 SoCal schools, including the University of Southern California, Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, the American Film Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.
Selected films included animated shorts about cowboys to documentaries about Latino and Latina representation in Hollywood. Of these finalists, three winners will be awarded prizes in the animation, narrative and documentary categories, along with one winner of the Jack Larson Southern California Student Filmmaker Award.
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