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    Live-Action Short Oscar Race Narrowed Down To 10 Contenders

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    A scene from "Lost Face"
    LOS ANGELES --

    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 10 live action short films will advance in the voting process for the 90th Academy Awards®.  A record 165 pictures had originally qualified in the category.

    The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:

    • “DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
    • “The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (FINCH)
    • “Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
    • “Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
    • “Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry, producer (Soma Films)
    • “My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr., director (New York University)
    • “Rise of a Star,” James Bort, director, and Boris Mendza, producer (Fulldawa Films)
    • “The Silent Child,” Chris Overton, director, and Rachel Shenton, writer (Slick Films)
    • “Watu Wote/All of Us,” Katja Benrath, director (Hamburg Media School)
    • “Witnesses,” David Koch, director (Lux for Film, Diez Films and Paradoxal)

    Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch viewed all the eligible entries for the preliminary round of voting.

    Short Films and Feature Animation Branch members will now select five nominees from among the 10 titles on the shortlist.  Branch screenings will be held in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco in January.

    Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 23, 2018.

    The 90th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 4, 2018, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT.
    The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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