For the second time in the last three years, the Oscar for Best Documentary Short has been claimed by Ben Proudfoot. The Canadian-born filmmaker and his fellow director Kris Bowers won the Academy Award tonight for their film The Last Repair Shop, the story of craftspeople in Los Angeles who keep 80,000 musical instruments in working order for the city’s public school students. It’s the only big city school system that keeps kids in tune with free bassoons, trombones, sousaphones, cellos, piccolos and every other kind of instrument.
Bowers, a gifted pianist and leading Hollywood composer attended L.A. Unified School District schools growing up and developed his talent on pianos maintained by one of the technicians profiled in the film.
“The Last Repair Shop is about the heroes in our schools who often go unsung,...
Bowers, a gifted pianist and leading Hollywood composer attended L.A. Unified School District schools growing up and developed his talent on pianos maintained by one of the technicians profiled in the film.
“The Last Repair Shop is about the heroes in our schools who often go unsung,...
- 3/11/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
The Lausd Education Foundation is embarking on a major capital campaign to benefit the musical instrument repair operation documented in the Oscar-nominated film The Last Repair Shop.
The $15 million campaign, revealed at an event at Hollywood High School Tuesday night, will invest in the repair workshop’s skilled craftspeople and support staff, and fund “a student apprenticeship program that will build the next generation of instrument technicians.”
Filmmakers Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers made the surprise announcement after a screening of their film in the school’s auditorium, located a short distance from where the Oscar ceremony will take place on March 10, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation on Hollywood & Highland.
The Hollywood High School auditorium exterior with banners featuring the cast of ‘The Last Repair Shop’
The documentary short, distributed by Searchlight Pictures and L.A. Times Studios, tells the moving life stories of four of the key professionals who...
The $15 million campaign, revealed at an event at Hollywood High School Tuesday night, will invest in the repair workshop’s skilled craftspeople and support staff, and fund “a student apprenticeship program that will build the next generation of instrument technicians.”
Filmmakers Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers made the surprise announcement after a screening of their film in the school’s auditorium, located a short distance from where the Oscar ceremony will take place on March 10, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation on Hollywood & Highland.
The Hollywood High School auditorium exterior with banners featuring the cast of ‘The Last Repair Shop’
The documentary short, distributed by Searchlight Pictures and L.A. Times Studios, tells the moving life stories of four of the key professionals who...
- 2/22/2024
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Magician-turned-film director Ben Proudfoot uses cameras to create illusions with powerful and emotional narratives on the big screen. And the Academy Awards has given its stamp of approval.
The Canadian filmmaker just earned his third Oscar nomination in four years for The Last Repair Shop, his latest film set to compete in the best documentary short category. That’s after Proudfoot in 2020 nabbed his first Oscar nomination for the short doc A Concerto Is a Conversation, executive produced by Ava DuVernay, and became an Oscar winner in 2021 for the documentary short The Queen of Basketball, about the late basketball pioneer Lusia “Lucy” Harris.
That gives Proudfoot among the best batting averages of late for Oscar contenders in Hollywood.
“It’s hard for me to deal with that. It’s an extraordinary honor. And I just feel if there’s a secret ingredient, it’s just the love we put into our films,...
The Canadian filmmaker just earned his third Oscar nomination in four years for The Last Repair Shop, his latest film set to compete in the best documentary short category. That’s after Proudfoot in 2020 nabbed his first Oscar nomination for the short doc A Concerto Is a Conversation, executive produced by Ava DuVernay, and became an Oscar winner in 2021 for the documentary short The Queen of Basketball, about the late basketball pioneer Lusia “Lucy” Harris.
That gives Proudfoot among the best batting averages of late for Oscar contenders in Hollywood.
“It’s hard for me to deal with that. It’s an extraordinary honor. And I just feel if there’s a secret ingredient, it’s just the love we put into our films,...
- 2/9/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first thing I wanted to do after watching The Last Repair Shop was give a hug to Dana Atkinsons, Duane Michaels, Paty Moreno, and Steve Bagmanyan. It would not be an exaggeration if I compared the documentary itself to a warm hug, or even a warm cup of coffee on a winter morning, and so on. Deservingly getting nominated in the “Best Documentary Short” category at the upcoming Oscars, The Last Repair Shop hits all the right notes when it comes to wholesomeness. The forty minutes of it pass like a breeze, and in the end, you crave more.
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens In The Documentary?
In the heart of Los Angeles, there’s a musical instrument repair shop, just like tons of other similar shops all over the world. But this one is very special because this shop not only infuses new life into dead instruments, but they...
Spoilers Ahead
What Happens In The Documentary?
In the heart of Los Angeles, there’s a musical instrument repair shop, just like tons of other similar shops all over the world. But this one is very special because this shop not only infuses new life into dead instruments, but they...
- 2/3/2024
- by Rohitavra Majumdar
- Film Fugitives
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