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
Searchlight Pictures and the L.A. Times Studios on Wednesday announced their boarding of The Last Repair Shop, an acclaimed documentary short, which just received two Critics Choice Association nominations and a spot on Doc NYC’s Short List, on the heels of its premiere at Telluride.
Co-directed by Oscar- and Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker and musician Kris Bowers, as well as Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot, the film likely to be put up for awards consideration will become available to stream for free globally November 8th, via the Los Angeles Times’ YouTube channel and latimes.com. Check out a new trailer for the short above.
“We’ve discovered such a special film with The Last Repair Shop, and we’re thrilled to be working with Ben and Kris,” said Searchlight Pictures Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “This is the kind of story we need right now, and we are proud...
Co-directed by Oscar- and Grammy-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker and musician Kris Bowers, as well as Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot, the film likely to be put up for awards consideration will become available to stream for free globally November 8th, via the Los Angeles Times’ YouTube channel and latimes.com. Check out a new trailer for the short above.
“We’ve discovered such a special film with The Last Repair Shop, and we’re thrilled to be working with Ben and Kris,” said Searchlight Pictures Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. “This is the kind of story we need right now, and we are proud...
- 10/18/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
What to do with a broken violin peg, or a leaky euphonium? For students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, such a predicament doesn’t mean catastrophe. They have at their disposal a repair shop where a quartet of dedicated individuals attend to damaged instruments, restoring them to exemplary condition.
This repair shop is the focus of a new documentary directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers (Oscar-nominated for A Concerto Is a Conversation), The Last Repair Shop, which made its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday. The finality of the title alludes to a salient fact about this shop tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of Los Angeles: “It is… the last American city to provide freely repaired instruments to its public school students.”
Kris Bower
Bowers is a pianist and composer who has scored numerous films and television series, including Green Book, King Richard,...
This repair shop is the focus of a new documentary directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers (Oscar-nominated for A Concerto Is a Conversation), The Last Repair Shop, which made its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday. The finality of the title alludes to a salient fact about this shop tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of Los Angeles: “It is… the last American city to provide freely repaired instruments to its public school students.”
Kris Bower
Bowers is a pianist and composer who has scored numerous films and television series, including Green Book, King Richard,...
- 9/3/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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