Award-winning ‘Short Term 12’ Gets a Trailer

Yahoo! released a new trailer for Destin Daniel Cretton‘s Short Term 12, which won the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s SXSW Festival. The film stars Brie Larson and John Gallagher Jr. as a couple working at a facility for at-risk youths.  Critics are hyping this one up big time and the new trailer makes it look like it’s going to be pretty powerful.  I was also a big fan of I Am Not a Hipster, Cretton’s previous film.

Short Term 12 is releasing in select cities August 23, 2013 and can next be seen at the LA Film Festival.  Hit the jump for the trailer and synopsis.

Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker of the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). But Grace’s own difficult past – and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself – throw her into unforeseen confusion, made all the sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility: a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has a charged connection. While the subject matter is complex, this lovingly realized film finds truth – and humor – in unexpected places. The second feature from Destin Daniel Cretton (I Am Not a Hipster), Short Term 12 also stars Kaitlyn Dever (Bad Teacher), Rami Malek (The Master), and Keith Stanfield.