Oscar Shorts: Documentary
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AUDIBLE
Director: Matt Ogens
Producer: Geoff McLean
USA, 38 min
AUDIBLE is a cinematic and immersive coming-of-age documentary following Maryland School for the Deaf high school athlete Amaree McKenstry and his close friends, as they face the pressures of senior year and grappling with the realities of venturing off into the hearing world. Amaree and his teammates take out their frustrations on the football field as they battle to protect an unprecedented winning streak, while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a close friend. This is a story about kids who stand up to adversity. They face conflict, but approach the future with hope – shouting to the world that they exist and they matter.
LEAD ME HOME
Directors: Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk
Producers: Bonni Cohen, Serin Marshall, Richard Berge
USA, 39 min
500,000 Americans experience homelessness every night. LEAD ME HOME is a documentary short by Jon Shenk and Pedro Kos that captures the experience from multiple perspectives. This immersive, cinematic film personalizes the overwhelming issue by telling the real-life stories of those going through it as a first step toward challenging uninformed attitudes and outmoded policies and gives the audience a rare, in-depth look at the scale, scope and diversity of unsheltered America today.
THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL
Director: Ben Proudfoot
Producers: Elizabeth Brooke, Abby Lynn Kang Davis, Gabe Godoi, Ben Proudfoot, Brandon Somerhalder, Sarah Stewart
Cast: Lusia Harris
USA, 22 min
She is one of the greatest living women’s basketball players. 3 national trophies. Scored the first basket in women’s Olympic basketball at the ‘76 Olympics. Drafted to the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lusia Harris?
THREE SONGS FOR BENAZIR
Directors: Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei
Producers: Gulistan and Elizabeth Mirzaei, Omar Mullick, Hamayoun Noori, Jamil Rezaei
Afghanistan, 22 min
The story of Shaista, a young man who—newly married to Benazir and living in a displacement camp in Kabul—struggles to balance his dreams of being the first from his tribe to join the Afghan National Army with the responsibilities of starting a family.
WHEN WE WERE BULLIES
Director: Jay Rosenblatt
Producers: Elena Filippini, Jay Rosenblatt, Stefano Tealdi
Cast: Mark Athitakis, Ruth Bromberg, Wendy Newman, Richard J. Silberg
Germany/USA, 36 min
A mind-boggling coincidence leads the filmmaker to track down his fifth grade class and fifth grade teacher to examine their memory of and complicity in a bullying incident 50 years ago.
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Featured Films in this Series:
coming soon
Pure Nonfiction: It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
July 30
Never-before-seen footage, exclusive voice messages, and accounts from Jeff Buckley’s inner circle paint a captivating portrait of the gifted musician who died tragically in 1997, having only released one album.
coming soon
Pure Nonfiction: Swimming to Cambodia
July 23
Actor, performance artist and playwright Spalding Gray here adapts his successful one-man show for the big screen.
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Pure Nonfiction: Sunday Best (A Tribute To Sacha Jenkins)
July 16
SUNDAY BEST examines the groundbreaking career of pioneering television host Ed Sullivan, focusing on his platforming of Black musicians during the civil rights era.
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Pure Nonfiction: Letter to the Editor
July 9
Acclaimed filmmaker and Emmy winner Alan Berliner’s personal journey through 40 years of pictorial history culled from daily printed editions of the New York Times.