For decades, the three Oscar shorts prizes — live action, animated and especially documentary — have confounded those who watch the awards. Shorts were all but impossible to see and subject to a different set of rules. That was until ShortsTV came along to distribute the nominees, but even then, at the qualification stage, virtually every other category had to play theatrically, whereas the shorts didn’t, causing some to question whether they even belonged in the Oscar telecast at all.
When it comes to topicality, it’s hard to beat Sophia Nahli Allison’s powerful 19-minute “A Love Song for Latasha,” which played the Tribeca and Sundance film festivals before the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement. Now streaming on Netflix, the short revisits one of the catalyzing tragedies of the 1992 L.A.
More typical of past Oscar winners such as “Saving Face” and “Period. End of Sentence’” Skye Fitzgerald’s grueling 40-minute “Hunger Ward” asks audiences to confront a devastating humanitarian crisis, as Saudi air strikes and blockades on Yemen leave countless children on the brink of starvation.
Fourth in ShortsTV’s release package, Anthony Giacchino’s “Colette” opens with the warning, “Viewers may find the content of this film distressing,” although the same can be said of the three shorts that preceded it. The Colette in question is a strong-willed 90-year-old French woman whose brother died in the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora.
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