Kris Bowers & Ben Proudfoot won the Best Documentary Short Oscar for The Last Repair Shop. It’s Proudfoot’s second award…he won two years ago for The Queen of Basketball. Proudfoot has been a Kottke favorite since 2011.
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The Last Repair Shop was magical. It felt like they set out to film a documentary about classical musical instruments in schools, but stumbled upon a much more interesting documentary about the four repair-people's lives and stories.
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