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2023 Oscar Nominated Shorts – Documentary

February 24, 2023 @ 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

The Elephant Whisperers (Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga) — An out of the ordinary family story about a South Indian couple and their adopted child: an orphaned baby elephant. Gonsalves spent five years documenting the incredible familial love that forms between the couple and the elephant calf with the goal for “people to understand elephants, that they are very similar [to us] and they don’t mean harm in any way.”

Haulout (Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev) — The Arbugaev brother and sister filmmaking team capture the story of a scientist observing Walrus migration in the Russian Arctic. The film focuses on how the walruses and their migration have been impacted by the warming climate. This film takes a look at the real life toll a global issue like climate change has, by holding up a lens to one scientist and one species’ specific ritual.

How Do You Measure a Year (Jay Rosenblatt) — Rosenblatt is back following his nomination for last year’s When We Were Bullies, and just as that film was about looking back, so is How Do You Measure a Year. For 16 years Rosenblatt would ask his daughter Ella the same questions and film her response. The questions are: What do you dream about? What scares you? What do you think about our relationship? The short compiles each year’s answers as Ella ages from 2 to 18, and the audience sees how the relationship evolves in the span of half an hour.

The Martha Mitchell Effect (Anne Alvergue and Beth Levison) — “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate,” says Richard Nixon in regard to the subject of this documentary short. Martha Mitchell was a famous socialite and married to Nixon’s Attorney General John N. Mitchell. When Martha Mitchell attempted to speak out about her suspicions, the Nixon administration did everything to keep her quiet. Her story is told in her own words via archive footage, and may hit home for academy voters wanting to make a statement about speaking up and doing the right thing.

Stranger at the Gate (Joshua Steffel and Conall Jones) — This nominee documents a journey that starts as dark as can be, but takes a hopeful turn. The titular stranger is a former marine that, when suffering from PTSD and being consumed by Islamophobia, plans to attack a local Mosque. His heart changes though as he begins to interact with the people he targeted and seeing them face to face.

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Date:
February 24, 2023
Time:
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
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Organizer

The Civic Theatre
Phone
250-352-5833
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Community
Nelson
Organizer Contact Name
jason asbell
Email
jason@civictheatre.ca
Phone
250.509.2333

Venue

The Shoebox Theatre
225 Hall St.
Nelson, V1L 5X4
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Phone
(250) 352-7422
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