BIRCH STREET GYM U.S.A. Independent Cinema - Shorts

The “best” of 1991’s I ive-action shorts, the Oscar nominees for short films. Last Breeze of Summer by AFl’s own Arik Caspi and David Massey, is a moving and authentic story of school desegregation in 1957 Texas told from the perspective of a 14- year-old girl. In Seth Winston’s Oscar-winning Session Man, musician McQueen is summoned in the middle of the night to play with one of rock’s biggest groups and finds his dreams coming true … for a few hours. Birch Street Gym, Stephen Kessler’s bittersweet comedy about aging, takes place at a gym where men over 70 go to box. -Pearl Fisher