STATEMENT ON OSCAR NOMINATION BY CO-DIRECTORS KRIS BOWERS AND BEN PROUDFOOT (THE LAST REPAIR SHOP - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM)

 

STATEMENT ON OSCAR NOMINATION BY CO-DIRECTORS KRIS BOWERS AND BEN PROUDFOOT (THE LAST REPAIR SHOP - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM)

“We are enormously grateful to the Academy’s Documentary Branch for lifting up this story and we are deeply honored to lead the charge to bring The Last Repair Shop to the 96th Oscars. This film is about magnifying love and the people whose love makes the world go around. The fixers. The helpers. Those who lift us up with song. It is our duty to support and encourage and applaud them. Love, music, healing; these are the things that make the world go around and we found that story in an inconspicuous corner of LA’s public school district. This nomination is a win for the repair shop, for Los Angeles, and for all music loving people who believe in the will to repair. In many places in the world, young people have zero access to musical instruments. This nomination can help send a powerful message. You can’t stop the music.”

– Kris Bowers and Ben Proudfoot, Co-Directors of The Last Repair Shop