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Tale of troubled teens takes SXSW film prize

FILM: Short Term 12, a drama set in a centre for troubled teenagers, took the top prize for narrative feature film at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas.


By AFP

Monday 25 March 2013 10:20 AM


Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the film stars Brie Larson as a twenty-something foster home supervisor with a difficult past of her own.

The prize for best documentary went to Brooklyn-based director Ben Nabors’ William and the Windmill, the tale of a young African inventor who builds a windmill to lift his family out of poverty.