''African American Short Films'' is an American television show. It is the only nationally televised program, in first-run syndication, featuring

short films A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

starring, produced, written or directed by

African American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from an ...

filmmakers. The show has received several Telly Awards. ''African American Short Films'' began airing in 2002 as a one-hour quarterly television special in

first-run syndication Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast their content to other television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air it on. It is common in the United States whe ...

. The program was created by veteran television producer Frank Badami.

Shorts

The short film ''Window'', starring

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was included in the program in 2007. The short film ''Stuck for a Reason'', starring actress, writer, producer

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was included in the program in 2015.''Stuck for a Reason'' on African American Short Films
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References

External links

Official site
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