"The small but mighty group of people who painstakingly repair musical instruments for tens of thousands of public school students in Los Angeles aren't used to being in the spotlight.
But a new documentary is bringing their stories — and those of the kids whose lives they have changed for the better — to the red carpet.
In their Oscar-nominated film The Last Repair Shop, Halifax native Ben Proudfoot and L.A.'s Kris Bowers tell the story of the L.A. Unified School District's Musical Instrument Repair Shop, where 11 technicians service about 6,000 instruments each year for more than 1,300 schools across the city."
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13 February 2024, 06:29 PM
wtg
So worth seeing. The article had a link to the YouTube version (free):
Thanks for the heads up, rontuner.
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Bazootiehead-in-training
10 March 2024, 10:14 PM
wtg
It won the Oscar for best documentary short!
(hands clapping....)
-------------------------------- We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
11 March 2024, 12:00 AM
RealPlayer
Lovely little film!
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