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Nominee Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) 2021 

Award-winning Black composer, Kris Bowers (Bridgerton, Greenbook) traces his lineage through his grandfather who grew up in Jim Crow Florida. Hot Docs alumnus Ben Proudfoot  and executive producer Ava DuVernay deliver a heartwarming and poignant story about finding success as a Black man in America.

Nominee Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) 2017 

A donated violin forges an improbable friendship between 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Feingold and 12-year-old Bronx student, Brianna Perez. A hopeful, captivating story of survival and connection through music.

Nominee Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 2018 

In his debut film, director Bing Liu follows his skateboarding friends in a quest to understand why they all ran away from home in their youth. Bing explores the gap between fathers and sons, discipline and domestic abuse, and ultimately that precarious chasm between childhood and becoming an adult.

Nominee Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film 2007 

A group of children in war-ravaged Uganda find a reprieve in school through music and dance. Their inspiring journey to a prestigious music festival in their nation’s capital is a stirring tale about the power of the human spirit to triumph against tremendous odds.