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PBS SoCal announced today that the annual FINE CUT Festival of Films is celebrating 25 years of showcasing local student filmmaking and is now accepting submissions for the 2024 season from local film school students. The festival encourages promising filmmakers who are currently enrolled in or recently graduated from Southern California film schools to submit short films (25 minutes or less) in the categories of Documentary, Animation and Narrative for consideration for prizes as well as to be included in a series of broadcast episodes airing locally and streaming this fall. Following the broadcast, each episode of FINE CUT will stream at pbssocal.org/finecut and on the free PBS app. The deadline to submit short films for consideration is May 31, 2024 at filmfreeway.com/FineCut.

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2023 FINE CUT Awards Honorees included (L to R): Chapman's Vivienne Ayres, Audrey Shuppert and Nidhi Kumar, AFI's Sheheryar Ahsan, Cal Arts' Christina Woo and UCLA's Christina Sun Kim at Westwood's Landmark Theatre on September 13, 2023.
2023 FINE CUT Awards Honorees included (L to R): Chapman's Vivienne Ayres, Audrey Shuppert and Nidhi Kumar, AFI's Sheheryar Ahsan, Cal Arts' Christina Woo and UCLA's Christina Sun Kim at Westwood's Landmark Theatre on September 13, 2023. (Download)

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