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Oscar Doc Short Nominations: Sheila Nevins Breaks Through, Ben Proudfoot Scores Third Nom In Four Years
At the age of 84, documentary legend Sheila Nevins today earned the first Oscar nomination of her career. Nevins was nominated in the Documentary Short category this morning for her directorial deb…
Her film, co-directed by Nazenet Habtezghi and produced by Trish Adlesic, examines the surge of book banning in U.S. schools, and gives a platform to kids who share what it means to them to be denied access to reading materials in their libraries. The Last Repair Shop shines a spotlight on the handful of unsung people who toil in obscurity to make sure kids in the Los Angeles Unified School District have access to working musical instruments. “On the rural Taiwanese outer islands of Kinmen, just 2 miles off the coast of China… Chiang weaves lyrical vignettes of tourist visits and local life with his own narrative as someone negotiating ambivalent personal bonds to Taiwan, China, and the U.S.,” the Times writes of the film, which hit the paper’s website and YouTube channel in December.
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