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Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Directors Ben Proudfoot & Kris Bowers Return To Oscar Contention With Music-Infused ‘The Last Repair Shop’
In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, a small group of people toil in obscurity, tending to broken pegs, stuck valves, clogged tubing and damaged keys – all to restore musical instruments to perfect w…
In a hidden corner of Los Angeles, a small group of people toil in obscurity, tending to broken pegs, stuck valves, clogged tubing and damaged keys – all to restore musical instruments to perfect working order for the city’s public-school students. The co-directors join the new episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss their film, which recently made the Oscar shortlist of nonfiction shorts remaining in contention for the Academy Award. In the podcast episode, they explain how they work together so successfully and how they resolved a key question in The Last Repair Shop – namely, whether to focus on the technicians alone, or include some of the kids who benefit from the free instrument program.
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