Podcasts about best documentary short subject

Today on "Words On Film", Dan Burke reviews the Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary Short Subject, and reveals his predictions for this year's Academy Award winners.

This episode of Across The Margin : The Podcast presents an interview with Ben Proudfoot, a Los Angeles-based filmmaker most noted as the director of The Queen of Basketball, winner of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. With co-director Kris Bowers he also brought to life the short documentary film A Concerto Is a Conversation, which was an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021. His latest documentary, The Last Repair Shop — the focus of this episode — is nominated at this year's Academy Awards for Best Documentary Short Subject. Once commonplace in the United States, today Los Angeles is by far the largest and one of the last American cities to provide free and freely repaired musical instruments to its public schoolchildren, a continuous service since 1959. The Last Repair Shop grants an all access pass to the nondescript downtown warehouse where a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good repair and in it the film blends the unexpectedly intimate personal histories of the repair people with emotional, firsthand accounts from the actual student musicians for whom their instruments made all the difference. In this episode host Michael Shields and Ben Proudfoot expound upon what music and access to instruments means to the lives of the children in Los Angeles while considering how the power of music has changed the lives of those who passionately labor in the repair shop. They talk about how the promise of the American Dream manifests itself within the documentary, the message of hope that is abounding in the film, and so much more. Ultimately this episode celebrates an inspiring documentary that serves as a passionate love letter to Los Angeles and to those unsung heroes who gave countless others the gift of music. This is an episode that pays tribute to a truly unique program that has produced countless legends from John Williams to Kendrick Lamar.Watch The Last Repair Shop here! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Oscars shortlist was announced on Thursday, and Nova Scotia's own Ben Proudfoot made it on the list for the second time. Proudfoot's latest documentary, The Last Repair Shop, was directed alongside pianist and composer Kris Bowers. It's nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject.

When evil proliferates, why do so few people actively stand against it? Why do we sometimes allow ourselves to remain indifferent? It's a question that we could pose on Germans and the West in World War II, it's a question we could pose on the West today in light of Hamas' atrocities of October 7. And perhaps it's a question we can pose on ourselves.Dr. Carol Rittner is an American nun and Holocaust historian. She is a Distinguished Emerita Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Dr. Marsha Raticoff Grossman Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University.Dr. Rittner produced a film titled The Courage to Care which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).  Dr. Rittner is also the former director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.Follow us to join the conversation!https://shmoozing.nethttps://www.facebook.com/groups/5871772776273202https://twitter.com/moshezeldman

David talks to Greg MacGillivray who has been producing and directing award-winning films for more than 50 years. Today, he has more than 60 films to his credit, including over 40 IMAX productions.Since the 1976 production of his first IMAX film, To Fly!, Greg has produced some of the most enduring films in the giant-screen genre. Greg has received two Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject: first in 1995 for The Living Sea, and then in 2000 for Dolphins. A passionate ocean conservationist, Greg and his wife Barbara founded the MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation, a non-profit public charity dedicated to educating and inspiring the public through giant-screen films and science education programming about the need to take action to protect the world's ocean.

[ For full episode catalogue please subscribe to our Patreon at Patreon.com/BestActress ] NEW EPISODE ALERT The year is 1969 and the nominees are: Katharine Hepburn - The Lion in Winter Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl Patricia Neal - The Subject Was Roses Vanessa Redgrave - Isadora Joanne Woodward - Rachel, Rachel - In 1969 Ingrid Bergman presented the Oscar for Best Actress and was stunned when she opened the envelope revealing a tie for Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn. Up until this point in Academy history there had only ever been a tie twice. First in 1932 for Best Actor and a second in 1950 for Best Documentary Short Subject. In those days you could tie with a margin of difference of 3 votes. However in 1969 both Hepburn and Streisand had to have equal number of votes to win, and they did (allegedly (technically no way to prove they didn't))! Two fantastic performances were rewarded that night but we don't believe in ties on Best Actress Podcast! Tune in to find out who we think the Oscar should have gone to in 1969! Join host Kyle Brownrigg with guest host Fiona O'Brien as they discuss.

Smriti Mundhra started a production company, Meralta Films, that specializes in documentary films and non-fiction content.Mundhra won the Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for her first feature documentary film A Suitable Girl, along with her co-director Sarita Khurana.In 2020, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for her film St. Louis Superman (2019)Mundhra was born in Los Angeles, California and raised between Los Angeles and Mumbai, India. Her father, Jag Mundhra was also a filmmaker. She is also known for the Netflix series "Indian Matchmaking" and her most recent work which is being appreciated by the entire film industry - The Romantics, that encapsulates 70 years of film history of Yash Raj Films. Listen to Smriti Mundhra share what went behind making such enigmatic documentary series as she chats with Bhawana Somaaya.   You can follow us and leave us feedback on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @eplogmedia, For partnerships/queries send you can send us an email at bonjour@eplog.media. If you like this show, please subscribe and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts, so other people can find us. You can also find us on https://www.eplog.mediaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on "Words On Film", Dan Burke reviews: "Creed III" the 2022 Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary Short Subject Mr. Burke also runs down the movies that are subject to being released in theaters for the week of March 6th - 10th, 2023.

Amaree McKenstry-Hall was in his senior year at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick. Football, Homecoming, and his future weighed on his mind. That's why filmmaker Matt Ogens made Amaree the heart of his coming-of-age documentary, “Audible.” "Audible" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary - Short Subject. You can stream the film on Netflix. This interview originally aired on March 11, 2022. Transcript available here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this special episode three of the five nominees for this year's Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) join us to discuss their films.   When We Were Bullies, by the Award-winning director and writer Jay Rosenblatt, follows Jay as he tracks down his fifth-grade class and their teacher to examine their memories of and complicity in a bullying incident over 50 years ago. We are next joined by award-winning director and producer Matthew Ogens. His short documentary Audible, produced by Netflix, follows football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall and his Maryland School for the Deaf teammates, as they attempt to defend their winning streak while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a close friend. A two-time Oscar nominee, Ben Proudfoot discusses his short doc The Queen of Basketball, which tells the largely unknown story of Lusia Harris, the first and only woman to be officially drafted into the NBA. “I love using the short documentary format to circumvent the traditional gatekeepers of what kind of stories get told.” - Ben Proudfoot What is Covered: 00:00 - Introducing the guests and their films.03:00 - Introducing Jay Rosenblatt and what When We Were Bullies is about.03:45 - What inspired Jay to make a film about bullying.05:00 - Different memories people had around one incident of bullying.09:02 - What it's like meeting your fifth-grade teacher as an adult.12:05 - Introducing Matthew Ogens, the director of Audible.12:35 - How it feels to be nominated for an Oscar.13:22 - What Audible is all about.14:00 - How Matt met Amaree and his classmates.15:24 - The different subjects Audible covers.18:48 - What Amaree is doing now.20:10 - What attracted Matt to make a short film and what it's like working with Netflix.22:36 - The next documentary Matt is working on.24:07 - Introducing Ben Proudfoot, the director of The Queen of Basketball.25:15 - What The Queen of Basketball is all about.26:18 - Why Lusia Harris is not more well-known in the world.27:46 - How Ben found out about Lusia and what influenced him to make the film.29:53 - The way Lusia portrayed herself to the media.31:28 - What her life was like up until now.32:19 - Why Ben likes making short documentaries so much.33:45 - How he gets funding for documentaries.36:53 - The next projects Ben is working on. Resources: When We Were Bullies (2021) Audible (2021) The Queen of Basketball (2021) The Smell of Burning Ants (1994) MovieMaker Magazine Innersound Audio Alamo Pictures Connect with Jay Rosenblatt:Website IMDb Connect with Matthew Ogens:Website Instagram Twitter Connect with Ben Proudfoot:IMDb Instagram Twitter Connect with Factual America: Facebook Instagram Twitter Connect with Matthew Sherwood: Facebook LinkedIn Twitter More From Factual America: Writing with Fire: Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary

In the newest episode of The Cinematic Schematic, hosts Caleb Masters and Laron Chapman return to continue the annual Oscar predictions episode for our fourth year. Let's admit it. The Academy has struggled to stay relevant in the mainstream for at least the last decade which has led to frequent programming shakeups for better and (mostly) worse and the 94th Academy Awards is no exception. Firstly, the decision was made recently that not all categories would be airing live during the telecast ceremony for the 94th Academy Awards. Eight awards including Best Documentary (Short Subject), Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Short Film (Animated), Best Short Film (Live Action), and Best Sound, will instead be presented an hour before the telecast ceremony and then edited into the live broadcast. Secondly, a hotly discussed show item is always “will there be a host and if so, who should it be?” Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall were announced to be the host, alongside many other celebrity presenters. Lastly, how could we forget what is perhaps the most blatant (desperate?) attempt to draw in mainstream audiences, the “Oscar Fan Favorite” category. Love it […] The post Oscar Predictions 2022 for The 94th Academy Awards – The Cinematic Schematic appeared first on The Cinematropolis.

"Audible," a documentary about the football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf, has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary (Short Subject). We speak with director Matt Ogens. And, Dmitry Valuev, regional coordinator in Virginia for the group Russian America for Democracy in Russia, describes his and other Russians' efforts to support Ukrainians at home and abroad.

Amaree McKenstry-Hall was in his senior year at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick. Football, Homecoming, and his future weighed on his mind. That's why filmmaker Matt Ogens made Amaree the heart of his coming-of-age documentary, “Audible.” "Audible" was recently nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary - Short Subject. The Oscars air March 27. "Audible" is available on Netflix. TRANSCRIPT: Sheilah Kast Good morning, I'm Sheilah Kast. We're On the Record. The documentary “Audible” follows an important season in Amaree McKinstry Hall's life football season. It's his last. He's a senior at the Maryland School for the Deaf in Frederick. The stakes are high. The Orioles have not lost to a Deaf school in 16 years. Just minutes into the film, that winning streak is broken. In the film, we see the searing pain of that loss. But we also see that while that streak was broken, the Orioles are not. Over and over, "Audible" shows how Amaree and his friends persevere. The film, out on Netflix, was recently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary -Short Subject. Joining us to talk about it is director Matt Ogens, a Maryland native. His other projects include the documentary, "Confessions of a Superhero," about the costumed superheroes who roam the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Emmy nominated docu-series, "Why We Fight," which follows fighters from across the globe. Matt Ogens, welcome to the show. Matt Ogens Thank you so much, Sheilah. Thanks for having us. Sheilah Kast Also with us is Amaree McKinstry Hall, who graduated from the Maryland School for the Deaf in 2020. We're speaking to Amaree with the assistance of Anessa Hughes, an American Sign Language interpreter from the Centralized Interpreter Referral Service. Welcome, Amaree. Amaree McKinstry Hall Thanks. Happy to be here! Sheilah Kast Matt, where did the idea for this film come from? Matt Ogens So I grew up in Maryland, about 30 minutes away from from Maryland school for the Deaf in Frederick. But I had a lot of connections, so my aunt is an ASL interpreter in the D.C. Maryland area and interpreted at the Maryland school for the Deaf for about six years when I was a kid. But I think the biggest connection is my best friend, also from Maryland, is Deaf. We've been best friends since we were seven years old, I was just texting with him. And so it actually I came up with the idea of wanting, wanting to do something with Maryland School for the Deaf 12 years before I made the film. It took that long of just stops and starts and different partners and almost and maybes and getting it made until I connected with Netflix. And they really understood and believed in the story. And I think at the end of the day, in some ways, on a personal level, it was a way for me to try to understand and connect with my friend and the larger Deaf community. Sheilah Kast And why did you decide to make Amaree the main subject? Matt Ogens I wouldn't say this is a football or a sports documentary. It's a coming of age film. There's relationships, there's family, there's tragedy and there's sports. And when I say coming of age, I wanted, I knew I wanted the main character to be a senior. Because for every teenager, graduating high school, going off into the larger world or college or whatever you're going to, do is a pivotal moment. And imagine that if you're Deaf and going out into a more of a broader hearing world. But what that meant is over 12 years I tried to make the film. I wanted a senior. That means I had to recast every single year for 12 years because they would graduate. And I'm so glad it took 12 years because if I didn't wait 12 years, I wouldn't have met this man on on this as well, Amaree. And besides just being an amazing human, what I loved about his story, it has all the marks of a great of great storytelling. His relationship with his father or lack thereof when he was younger, his unlikely friendship with the cheerleader. And that friendship coming about through a tragedy through Teddy, it helped show the struggle, his struggle and perhaps others in the Deaf community. And I've never heard another filmmaker saying, I'm glad it took 12 years to get a film made, but I'm glad it took five years to get a film made. Sheilah Kast Amaree, how did Matt approach you about being in his movie? Amaree McKinstry Hall Well, to be honest, you know, Matt asked me about it and just told me that he wasn't, he was on my side. He wanted me to be able to tell my own story about becoming a man, and he wanted me to just get it all out. You know, the whole story and that it was a way for me to have some healing happen in that way. He just emphasized that he wanted other people to be able to relate to those frustrations and everything that I've been through. I mentioned it to a counselor and just described what the experience was going to be like, and I agreed with everybody else that it would be a perfect opportunity. I'm not sure how to describe that. Yeah. Sheilah Kast Amaree, that loss to the school from Texas. How did that moment feel? Amaree McKinstry Hall So, you know, that loss to Texas was so unexpected. You know, I just always had complete confidence that we would do what we needed to do, that they would do something wrong that we can add such pride in the Maryland school for the Deaf. And that moment that we lost, I was completely enraged. I mean, I wanted to start beating the ground. I wanted to get out of there. I just wanted to escape. I felt ashamed, just embarrassed to have it happen. But it was such a learning experience that I could apply it to the rest of my life. If something's getting in the way of me being successful somewhere else, if something happens on my job, I can't just walk away. You just can't just give up like that. So it was really it really threw me being at the real school for the Deaf and having that loss. Sheilah Kast You and your teammates are very close. What did you do to not let that loss weigh you down? Amaree McKinstry Hall After we had the loss, I just knew we needed to regroup. We had to do some exploration. We had to figure out how to grow from it. We'd go to practices. We might start at three o'clock and before then we would right at five o'clock sharp, just all walk away. And we decided, you know, we're not going to quit at exactly five. We're going to do what it takes. We're gonna stay late if that's what we need and just get back in the game and see if we can get back into a championship rating. So. It made me happy to have that happen because we saw that we could come back from it. We actually only had that one loss. We had nine more wins, so it wasn't as big of a deal as we thought it was definitely didn't give up. Sheilah Kast Matt, there are lots of personal moments in this film, conversations about dating, friends dancing at a party. What did you do to earn the trust of these teens? Matt Ogens Going back for 12 years. Obviously, they were just kids, but I think in general, going back every year because I'd go visit. I live in Los Angeles now, going back to visit my family in Maryland. Every year, every other year, I'd pop into the school and say, Hi, meet the new kids. And I think coming back over and over and really being invited in. Also, I met Amaree when he was a junior and and Lira. So, you know, I had a year of talking to them and actually, I didn't know there was a person named Teddy. They told me that story when I met them. I assume because they wanted to share that. And so I didn't know that. I think just showing up and talking to them and doing a lot more listening than talking. I mean, I'd say at the end of the day, I don't know that Amaree and them learned anything from me. I hope I was just a conduit for them to tell their story and created a space, a safe space for it to be about them. It's not an observational film, it's that it's their film. And I learned a lot from them. Sheilah Kast Amaree, Matt mentioned Teddy, Teddy Webster. You endured the death of your friend and fellow football player. He died by suicide in 2017. Tell us about Teddy. Amaree McKinstry Hall I'd be happy to. Teddy. He died in November 2017. And he was my best friend. We grew up together, we were at the Columbia campus of the Maryland school together up until eighth grade. We got our education together, and he was my best friend just because of all the experiences we had together, all the fun that we had. We didn't see ourselves as being any different from each other. He was so funny. He loved acting. He loved everything about Hollywood. Everybody knew him well. Everybody knew his name. It was one of those kind of kids. You wanted to go to some Ivy League school like Yale, Harvard or something like that. He had big goals in his life and we all knew he was capable. And then suddenly he was gone and died by suicide. Sheilah Kast You wrote Teddy's name on your wristband before the big homecoming game. Why? Amaree McKinstry Hall I did that was just to reinforce his memory you so many people actually didn't want to say his name when he actually died just because it's too painful, too painful to remember, too painful to think about. But I mean, we knew each other since we were little kids. So to me, I wanted to keep that, even after he was dead and gone. I feel like people who die by suicide leave behind friends and family who have a lot to work through when it comes to trying to understand why they felt the need for that. Teddy was the last person I would have guessed for someone to do something like that. So that's why I wanted his name on my wrist. Sheilah Kast This is On the Record on WYPR. I'm Sheilah Kast, speaking with Amaree McKinstry Hall, who graduated from the Maryland School for the Deaf in 2020, Anessa Hughes, an American sign language interpreter, is assisting. Also with us is filmmaker Matt Ogens, who directed "Audible," a coming of age film about Amaree and his peers. "Audible" was recently nominated for an Oscar. Matt, how did you approach the sound design for this film? Matt Ogens I knew I wanted to do something special with sound and make it a character kind of for obvious reasons way before I made the film. And lucky enough to have an A-list sound team, I mean way more than I can afford, but they really connected with the material. Our sound designers and sound mixers, our composer. I wanted to. There's a few reasons. One, I wanted for the hearing audience for them to, they'll never fully what it's like to be Deaf, but to be able to feel something. And so to show that spectrum of sound from silence like the very first frame to very vibrant and saturated, especially from different points of view, like, for example, a pretty important scene is a memory in the kitchen at his family home, and he's the only one that's Deaf and they're all talking around him. And so you switch to his point of view where it's very distant and muffled. So the audience, at least the hearing audience, can try to come close to putting themselves in his shoes. And then he leaves and goes upstairs and really playing with that. I did a lot of research, and that research mainly was talking to Amaree and his friends. What music do you listen to? How do you feel things. All of that they talk about in the film. So you'll hear a lot of the sounds having a lot of bassey sounds, a lot of distortion underneath. So if you turn up the volume, you're actually going to kind of feel something. And even if not, you sort of feel it emotionally in your gut. So that was sort of the idea. Also, something that I learned from Amaree and his friends in the Deaf community is that, their their minds, their worlds are not silent. I mean, certainly go in the locker room with Amaree before the game. There's nothing silent about that. They're not silent on the field and they have a voice and they have something to say. But also being Deaf is not, there's a spectrum of that. You know, Amaree's level of hearing is different than someone else. I also wanted to show that. Sheilah Kast Amaree, you talk in the movie about moments of isolation as a Deaf person out in the world and even in your own family, as Matt mentioned. Tell us more about that. Amaree McKinstry Hall Well, as Matt just described, you know, even in my own family, in the house, everybody, I can see their lips moving. People chatting and laughing, and I don't have access to any of that. So when everybody's chatting with each other, it's kind of exhausting to try to even figure out what's going on. Somebody says something and then another person laughs, and nobody's letting me in on what's going on. So, often I just want to get away from it. I'll go up to my room. I'll turn up the music, get the bass going, play a game, watch TV or something like that. Or especially, you know, face time with my friends and be able to communicate that way. Sheilah Kast Were you nervous about sharing those feelings on camera or worried that your family, how your family would react to knowing that you feel isolation? Amaree McKinstry Hall No, I wasn't nervous, actually. I wanted to be really open about that. I know that, you know, my mom honestly doesn't understand Deaf culture. She doesn't have the awareness. I wish she had. So I looked at it as a great opportunity for her to watch the film, and through the production of the film, get to see it from my side and then consider what had been going on in my family up until this point. And it's great exposure for any family, any hearing family who has a Deaf child to understand that they need to make things visual, especially when they get together. They need to have their hands up and signing, communicating with each other. If they're not doing that, they're excluding somebody in their family. Sheilah Kast I read, Amaree, that you are not only a football player, you also did track and field - the discus and javelin throw. Is that right? Amaree McKinstry Hall Right, I did discuss and it was actually one of my favorite sports. Then the javelin throw, that was a real way to get out some aggression. You know, just frustration just to let it all out. And sports in general, I really depended on. I know that's an individual thing. Not everybody has that feeling, but I love having something in my hands, like the discus or the javelin and being able to measure how I'm doing, how far I can throw it. Sheilah Kast Amaree, you graduated from high school two years ago. What are you doing now? Amaree McKinstry Hall After high school, I moved to Indiana, I've since moved to Minnesota, and I really wanted to start my own YouTube channel. I wanted to blog and I wanted to record more things about my life. I wanted to keep the film-making going. Then, when things didn't really work out in Indiana, no offense to Indiana, but there just wasn't a whole lot going on in the town I was living in. I'm not used to being so far out in the country. I decided to move to Minnesota because I could be on the Deaf Olympics wrestling team, Greco-Roman wrestling. So that way, you know, it was a sport where I could have my whole body involved, it's a head to toe kind of sport, and we'll be competing in 2022 in Brazil. Sheilah Kast Wow! And you have made one film and it was Oscar nominated, so more films might be in your future. Amaree McKinstry Hall I hope so. I love it. Yes, I don't have any expectation, but I'd love for that to happen. Matt Ogens I would, too. Sheilah Kast And Matt, what what are you working on next? Matt Ogens I can't say too much, but I'm currently directing a feature documentary that shoots in Nigeria and England about a ballet dancer. Amaree McKinstry Hall Go Matt! Sheilah Kast Good luck. Matt Ogens Thank you. Sheilah Kast Matt Ogens directed the documentary Audible. Amaree McKinstry Hall starred in the film. He graduated from the Maryland School for the Deaf in 2020. We spoke with the assistance of Anessa Hughes, an American sign language interpreter from the Centralized Interpreter Referral Service. Matt, Amaree, thank you and good luck. Matt Ogens Thank you, Sheilah. Thanks for having us. Amazing. Amaree McKinstry Hall That's great, thanks. Sheilah Kast Audible is available on Netflix. The Academy Awards air Sunday, March 27th. This is On the Record. I'm Sheilah Kast, short break now and then a Stoop Story. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every year on CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold make a point to review all 15 of the Oscar-nominated short films, and this year - since even the Academy Awards think they're disposable - it's more important than ever! So buckle up, because it's a deep dive into this year's Oscar nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT, BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM and BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM!  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more!  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com//criticallyacclaimednetwork See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode host Michael Shields interviews Ben Proudfoot, the Oscar nominated creative force behind Breakwater Studios. Dedicated to the art of the short documentary, the studio's work has been recognized by the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, The Emmys, The Webbys, James Beard Foundation, and Telluride Film Festival among others. His film A Concerto is a Conversation, co-directed by Kris Bowers and executive produced by Ava DuVernay, debuted at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Short Subject. Proudfoot's latest documentary, The Queen of Basketball, is the story of Lucy Harris, a pioneer in women's basketball who led a rural Mississippi college to three national titles, scored the first basket in women's Olympic history in 1976 and was remarkably the first and only woman to be drafted into the NBA. In 1992, she became the first Black woman to be inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Throughout the episode Michael and Ben expound upon Lucy's incredible story, from her upbringing in rural Mississippi to her unparalleled dominance playing college basketball, unto her history making run in the Olympics, and beyond. They also explore what it means to Lucy to be featured in a documentary, how extraordinary it was that she was drafted to play in the National Basketball Association, all the important and fascinating work Ben is doing with Breakwater Studios, his Almost Famous anthology series, and so much more in an episode that serves as an ode to one of the most important American athletes of the 20th century. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

From Wikipedia: "A Love Song for Latasha is a 2019 American biographical documentary short film directed by Sophia Nahli Allison. The film reimagines the life of Latasha Harlins, a Black Los Angeles girl shot and killed by a convenience store owner in 1991, through intimate memories shared by her cousin Shinese Harlins and best friend Tybie O'Bard. This documentary focuses on how she experienced the society and what dreams and hopes she developed rather than focusing on her death. It is nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 93rd Academy Awards. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nancygandcorryg/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nancygandcorryg/support

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review all 15 of this year's Oscar-nominated short films in a special bonus episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED! The nominees for BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT are COLETTE, A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION, DO NOT SPLIT, HUNGER WARD and A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA. The nominees for BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT SUBJECT are FEELING THROUGH, THE LETTER ROOM, THE PRESENT, TWO DISTANT STRANGERS and WHITE EYE. And the nominees for BEST ANIMATED SHORT SUBJECT are BURROW, GENIUS LOCI, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS I LOVE YOU, OPERA and YES PEOPLE! Best Documentary Short Subject - 8:32  Best Live-Action Short Subject - 40:31  Best Animated Short Subject - 1:10:26  Subscribe on Patreon at www.patreon.com/criticallyacclaimednetwork for exclusive content and exciting rewards, like bonus episodes, commentary tracks and much, much more! And visit our TeePublic page to buy shirts, mugs and other exciting merchandise!  Email us at letters@criticallyacclaimed.net, so we can read your correspondence and answer YOUR questions in future episodes! And if you want soap, be sure to check out M. Lopes da Silva's Etsy store: SaltCatSoap! Follow us on Twitter at @CriticAcclaim, join the official Fan Club on Facebook, follow Bibbs at @WilliamBibbiani and follow Witney at @WitneySeibold, and head on over to www.criticallyacclaimed.net for all their podcasts, reviews and more!

American Director Carol Dysinger wins an Oscar for revealing the resilience of young Afghan girls with an unlikely second chance at an education.Read the full article here on The Outdoor Journal. With an all-female crew of three Western women and two Afghan women, Carol gained unprecedented access into the lives of the young girls of Skateistan. She won the Academy Award in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category for Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) at the 92nd annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles on February 9.Afterward, Carol was whisked away to the after-parties to hobnob with the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Keanu Reeves. Carol has wrestled with one of the central themes of Learning to Skate in a Warzone - limited access to women - throughout her entire career. The film industry has historically excluded women from the director's chair and, conspicuously, the nominees for best director of a feature film were all men. Over her lifetime, Carol has maintained a passionate interest in examining the relationship between civil rights abolition and the women's movement. In fact, she even carries a copy of the Constitution in her purse at all times. Over the past 15 years, she has filmed in Afghanistan. Her previous work, Camp Victory Afghanistan is well-known for its portrayal of US National Guard troops struggling through cultural barriers to train the local Afghan national army. In deciding to take on this Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone project, Carol recognized and appreciated the systemic problems that Skateistan was willing to take on - access to education and illiteracy.As a teacher herself, at NYU's Tisch Graduate Film program, Carol innately connected with the educators and students at Skateistan. In this episode of The Outdoor Journal Podcast, Carol discusses what it was like to embed herself within a culture with antiquated traditions about women's rights, how she instantly connected with the young girls on Skateistan, and her experiences both on stage and behind the scenes at the Oscars.For more stories like this, visit The Outdoor Journal.

Errol Webber: a legal immigrant from Kingston, Jamaica, came to the U.S. with his family in 2002 when he was 15, with dreams of being a commercial airline pilot. All that changed in 2003 when he learned broadcast video at church, and became fascinated by the ability to shape how one views the world through video.  Webber went on to study film at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where, as a freshman, he opened his own photography and video production business out of his college dorm room. After graduating in 2008, Webber’s professor recommended him to shoot a film in Africa - Music By Prudence - about a tenacious group of Zimbabwean Afro- fusion musicians with disabilities. Music By Prudence won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2010.  Since then Webber has been commissioned to produce or shoot documentary and narrative films for educational institutions and non- profits. His documentary film work explores topics such as: healthcare, education, criminal justice, human rights, and police-community relations. Cinematographer of the: Oscar-winning, Music By Prudence  The film American Promise juxtaposes the nuances of public vs. Sundance-winning, American Promise  private education, and shows us the sacrifices many parents are willing to make in order to afford their children the best education possible. This decade-long coming-of-age documentary that Webber collaborated on, won the Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.  Moving to California, in 2014, the University of Washington, Tacoma, commissioned Webber to co-produce the documentary, Love & Solidarity which chronicles key U.S. Labor Movements, how it shaped resulting labor laws, and its effect on American society when it comes to workers’ rights.  Endorsed and lauded by elected officials and law enforcement professionals across the country, Webber’s newest feature documentary, WALKING WHILE BLACK: L.O.V.E. Is the Answer, tackles the critical issue of racial profiling, and explores cognitive psychology and implicit bias, while showing the need for emotional intelligence, promoting mental health and community engagement programs, bridging the gap between peace officers and the communities they serve.  Errol Webber has identified solutions to Federal issues that he believes are consequential to America’s future. These include addressing: Taxation, Healthcare, Education, Environment, Immigration, Police & Military, Jobs & Economy, Foreign Policy, Defending the Constitution, and combating the proliferation of Socialism.  After more than a decade of community engagement and programming through his socially-conscious documentary film work, Award-winning Los Angeles Film Producer, Errol Webber continues to give back to the nation that gave him the invaluable opportunity to succeed, by being a catalyst for change and having a seat at the table in public office as he campaigns for California’s 37th Congressional District.  ERROL WEBBER FOR CONGRESS | 800 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90017 errol@errolwebber.com | www.Webber2020.com | @ErrolWebber | FEC ID: C00719864

In episode 2 of the Movers & Shakers podcast we sit down with Oscar-winner Ruby Yang who started her directorial career with films like Citizen Hong Kong (1999) and China 21 (2001). Her most acclaimed work, The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006), won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject. Ruby uses the camera to tell us stories about identity, place, and voiceless people. Her documentaries empowered disenfranchised groups to speak out and brought their stories to the sight of the world. But what is Ruby's personal story? What was her journey to becoming a filmmaker? How did she shape her career in America as a minority? What did she experience from making the documentaries in different countries? ASHK Executive Director Alice Mong sits down with Ruby Yang to talk about her journey as a filmmaker, her thoughts on winning an Oscar, and other interesting life lessons from her creative life.

Menstruation is a shameful experience for girls in many parts of the world. When Oakwood School high school English teacher Melissa Berton and her students discovered (through a program called Girls Learn International) that girls in some villages in India have to miss school when they have their periods, they set out to do something about it. They raised money to buy a sanitary pad-making machine for one village and then traveled there to teach the locals how to use it—all of which they documented in the short film, Period. End of Sentence. In January 2019, much to their surprise, that 26-minute endeavor won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject and Melissa, her students, and director, 25-year-old Rayka Zehtabchi, took to the stage to accept the award. In this show, Melissa recounts with Linda that life-changing experience and how the effort to help other girls—as well as end the taboo surrounding menstruation—continue with the non-profit The Pad Project.   

Looking for all the latest Academy Awards news before Sunday's ceremonies? Look no further, because Zach and Jake are joined by UNC's finest film critic, Josh Martin (@MartinOnMovies), to discuss the frontrunners in every Oscars category and share their predictions. Plus, the guys dive into the latest trailer releases and break down all the newest movie and TV news.Intro (0:00-0:44)Meet Josh (0:44-2:40)"Frozen 2" Teaser (2:40-5:13)"Aladdin" Teaser and Why is Genie So Terrifying? (5:13-7:33)"Yesterday" Trailer and The Beatles (7:33-9:29)"Tolkien" Teaser (9:29-10:35)ANOTHER "Dune" Casting Announcement (10:35-14:07)"Fantastic Beasts" Still Sucks (14:07-15:30)"Breaking Bad" Movie Headed to Netflix (15:30-17:10)A Harry Potter Reboot? (17:10-19:38)"Star Wars Episode IX" Update (19:38-22:52)DCEU Update (22:52-26:15)The Oscars Show (26:15-1:10:46)Order of Categories Discussed: Best Picture, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Animated Feature, Animated Short, Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Best Documentary Feature, Best Documentary Short Subject, Best Live Action Short Film, Best Foreign Language Film, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Production Design, Original Score, Original Song, Makeup and Hair, Costume Design, Visual Effects

Today on "Words On Film", Dan Burke review: "The LEGO Movie 2: The Second One" "What Men Want" "Isn't It Romantic" "Happy Death Day 2U" The Oscar nominees for Best Documentary- Short Subject. He also starts the show with What's Topping the Box Office, and ends with a spoken-word preview of movies subject to be released FEbruary 13, 2019.

Daphne Matziarki has been recognized for her film "4.1 Miles", nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject and winner of the 2016 Peabody Award. #WPRO She was interviewed as she was recognized with the 2017 Pell Center Prize for Storytelling @PellCenter @pubstory In "4.1 Miles", Matziarki, a native of Greece, tells the heroic story of a Greek coast guard captain called upon to rescue refugees fleeing the war in Syria over the treacherous 4.1 mile passage in the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek Island of Lesbos. The film was produced in conjunction with the New York Times, and can be viewed at The Times' "Op-Docs" website: http://nyti.ms/2jmQuVj More about the film at: https://www.daphnematziaraki.com/

It's time to put on our snooty film geek hats and try to predict the winners of the 89th Academy Awards. Kent, Joel and Jacob (Jackie?) have done some actual research and are going to discuss who deserves the Oscar for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture and, yes, Best Documentary Short Subject! We do our best to keep things interesting for those of you who don't care about the Oscars, so we've even added some music clips, an "In Memoriam" section and plenty of pointless, yet stupid facts. So print out your own Oscars bracket below, press play and join us as we make our 2017 Oscar predictions! Printable Oscar Ballot: http://sugarandcharm.com/downloads/sugar-and-charm-oscar-ballot-2017.pdf

Hollywood er på den anden ende, og Hjørnet følger trop, for det er... (vent på det)... OSCARTID!!! Yup, for ottende år i træk har Hjørnet stablet en episk Oscaropvarmning på benene til jer. Casper, Jesper, Brie og Oscar-noob'en Niels gnasker sig møjsommeligt gennem samtlige kategorier for at finde ud af, hvilke film, der vinder i hvilke kategorier og det er absolut ikke let i år. Ja, La La Land ligger uden tvivl i føretrøjen, men hvilke af dens virvar af nomineringer, kan den forvandle til vindere? Kan Moonlight snigløbe sig til nogle priser? Og hvor store chancer har de danske Oscarbud? Alt (og vi mener ALT) bliver vendt og drejet i løbet af episodens ca. 4½ time. Som sædvanligt har Jesper set nærmere på Akademiets Sci-Tech Awards og Niels har udnyttet sin kærlighed for dårlige film til at se nærmere på årets Razzie-nomineringer. Brie leverer Oscar-nyheder og trivia, mens Casper har sørget for masser af lækker lyd og musik. Sidst, men ikke mindst, er der jo jer, for I har været gode til at skyde en masse Oscar-spørgsmål i vores retning via Facebook og tak for det. Så læn dig tilbage og følg med på endnu en Oscar-maraton fra Filmnørdens Hjørne. Rigtig god fornøjelse! Med venlig hilsen, Casper, Jesper, Brie & Niels TIDSKODER 00.00.00 - Lobby-snik-snak 00.03.31 - Oscar-montage og intro 00.06.15 - Velkomst 00.14.37 - Lynanmeldelse: La La Land 00.23.20 - Lynanmeldelse: Hidden Figures 00.26.08 - Lynanmeldelse: Lion 00.28.37 - Lynanmeldelse: Moonlight 00.33.45 - Info om showet 00.42.23 - Oscarnyt fra Mr. Filmnews 00.46.56 - Introduktion til gennemgang af kategorier 00.48.22 - BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION) 00.58.41 - BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING 01.03.46 - BEST SOUND EDITING 01.17.39 - BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM 01.25.11 - BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 01.32.59 - BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE 01.49.09 - Jesper gennemgang af Sci-Tech Awards 01.58.10 - BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED) 02.04.12 - BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN 02.08.29 - BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) 02.14.56 - BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 02.20.44 - BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 02.26.53 - BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTGIN ROLE 02.34.47 - Spørgsmål fra lytterne 02.46.59 - BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) 02.51.37 - BEST WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY) 02.58.32 - BEST SOUND MIXING 03.08.05 - BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE 03.16.39 - BEST DIRECTING 03.20.44 - Niels dykker ned i The Razzies 03.26.32 - BEST COSTUME DESIGN 03.31.14 - BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE) 03.42.11 - BEST FILM EDITING 03.48.39 - BEST WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY) 03.55.53 - BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE 04.07.49 - BEST PICTURE 04.20.23 - Afslutning