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Will Academy Award nominees include San Diego\u2019s Destin Cretton?<\/h1>\n

By Scott Marks
\nemulsioncompulsion.com<\/h6>\n

When the Motion Picture Academy announces its nominees on Feb. 2, don\u2019t be surprised if San Diego\u2019s \u201cSundance Kid,\u201d Destin Cretton, turns out to be an Oscar contender. The 31-year-old director of the dramatic short \u201cShort Term 12\u2033 could soon go down in history as South Park\u2019s only Academy Award-winning resident.<\/p>\n

So far, his film has racked up seven awards at festivals across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoston was our first audience award, so it\u2019s nice to know that normal people like the film, too,\u201d Cretton joked about winning the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at Boston\u2019s 2009 Independent Film Festival.<\/p>\n

In addition, \u201cShort Term 12\u2033 took home another audience award at the Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, special mention at both Aspen and Chicago, a Jury Prize at CineVegas and Best in Show at Seattle and Sundance.<\/p>\n

Why did it take a year for the Academy to catch on?<\/p>\n

According to Cretton (and the Academy\u2019s bylaws), in order to qualify to submit to the Academy Awards, \u201cyou have to win one of their qualifying festivals. Sundance and the jury prize at Seattle International Film Festival qualified us to win,\u201d Cretton explained. \u201cThat\u2019s how they narrow down the number of short films that they allow to be submitted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShort Term 12\u2033 is a knockout: a semi-autobiographical tale of a supervisor at a residential facility housing 15 kids who have suffered from child abuse and neglect. Destin was fortunate enough to get actor Brad Henke (\u201dSherryBaby,\u201d \u201cChoke,\u2019 \u201cWorld Trade Center\u201d) to star as Denim, the leader of a staff that is only slightly less pressured than air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n

Many of the kids are just one step away from \u201cjuvy.\u201d In just under 22 minutes, his camera pinpoints crucial details, befitting a far more experienced director, and skillfully tells us everything we need to know about these characters.<\/p>\n

He did that before with his feature documentary \u201cDrakmar: A Vassal\u2019s Journey\u201d (2006), made in San Diego with then-partner Lowell Frank. Lauded by local critics, the story of a fiercely committed boy hobbyist went on to HBO after director Bennett Miller (\u201dCapote,\u201d \u201cThe Cruise\u201d) came to San Diego for an award and was given a copy of the film by Cretton. (Fortunately, Cretton had brought a screener with him.)
\nWriting and directing movies wasn\u2019t even a blip on Cretton\u2019s radar when he was picking pineapples near his hometown of Haiku, Hawaii. Soon after Cretton graduated from high school, he moved to Ocean Beach and attended Point Loma Nazarene University, where in 2001 he received a B.A. in communication.<\/p>\n

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Destin Cretton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Scott Marks is a film critic for National Public Radio in San Diego. His website and blog is at emulsioncompulsion.com. ~RR<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will Academy Award nominees include San Diego\u2019s Destin Cretton? By Scott Marks emulsioncompulsion.com When the Motion Picture Academy announces its nominees on Feb. 2, don\u2019t be surprised if San Diego\u2019s \u201cSundance Kid,\u201d Destin Cretton, turns out to be an Oscar contender. The 31-year-old director of the dramatic short \u201cShort Term 12\u2033 could soon go down in history as South Park\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7962,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/01\/15\/i-am-not-a-hipster-san-diegosundance-film-finally-available-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":2004,"position":0},"title":"I AM NOT A HIPSTER San Diego\/Sundance Film Finally Available Online","author":"katherine","date":"January 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"[Film] I AM NOT A HIPSTERTweetA \"Love Letter to San Diego\" - REAL, LOCAL Indy Film By Katherine Sweetman I AM NOT A HIPSTER Available Online Today at Amazon, Vudu,\u00a0Google Play, iTunes, Sundance Now I AM\u00a0 NOT A HIPSTER's opening sequence takes place at the Casbah. 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