[ 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 … Read more
[ There exist three Oscar categories where it’s possible to watch all nominated films in one shot – that’s shorts, Animated, Live Action and Documentary. Packaged into three feature length films presented by ShortsTV, the Oscar Nominated Short Films open in theaters today for a four-week run on about 650 screens in the U.S. and … Read more
[ “It’s not too much to say I owe my career to people like the four repair people in our film,” Bowers said. The broadcast push is a first for an Oscar nominated short documentary. On Saturday it will air on ABC stations in major California cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Springs and … Read more
[ 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. These dedicated professionals are used to going about their work without any public … Read more
[ EXCLUSIVE: End credit sequences for documentaries usually consist of the standard scroll of names, titles, duties, etc. But the sequence that wraps The Last Repair Shop – the Oscar-contending short directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers — is pure magic, a musical summation of everything the film is about. Deadline is exclusively sharing … Read more
