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Each year, the Oscars’ shorts categories are an opportunity to spotlight a breadth of imagination and emotion across all filmmaking cultures, and for 2021 the sampling reveals a well intentioned tapestry of upheaval’s ripple effects. The live action slate is marked by stories of interactions in which proximity doesn’t always imply easy understanding. For the Palestinian father and young daughter venturing into the West Bank in Farah Nabulsi’s understatedly tense “The Present,” a sim...

China Orders No Live Oscars After Hong Kong Protest Film Nomination Bloomberg 4 days ago Shirley Zhao (Bloomberg) -- China told local media not to broadcast next month’s Oscars ceremony in real time and to play down coverage of the awards, according to people familiar with the matter, after a documentary on the Hong Kong protests was nominated and amid concern over the political views of Best Director contender Chloe Zhao. The Communist Party’s propaganda department issued...

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Sources close to state TV network CCTV say they are awaiting official word about whether the Academy Awards ceremony will be aired in China as usual, while local media outlets have been instructed to play down coverage and avoid any live broadcasting. The Oscar for best documentary short tends to be somewhat overlooked amid the glitz and glamour of the Academy Awards ceremony. But the underappreciated category is fast becoming a major sticking point in China this ...

Hong Kong documentary shortlisted for an Oscar March 15, 2021 A documentary on the demonstrations in Hong Kong that was directed by Norwegian journalist Anders Hammer is among those nominated for an Oscar at the year’s Academy Awards. Hammer spent several months on the front lines of Hong Kong residents’ desperate attempts to preserve their democracy, amidst brutal repression ordered from Beijing. Hammer’s “Do Not Split” is now among 10 Oscar candidates in the short documentary cate...

Report: Beijing Bans Oscars Broadcast over Hong Kong Protest Film Nomination 17 Mar 2021 The authoritarian government of China on Wednesday reportedly ordered state television not to carry the Academy Awards ceremony next month, because one of the films nominated for an Oscar is about the Hong Kong protest movement. The thin-skinned Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is also nursing a grudge against Chloe Zhao, director of Best Picture nominee The film that reportedly got the Oscars banned from Ch...

TORONTO -- Its been an emotional start to the week for Halifax-raised filmmaker Ben Proudfoot. On Monday, the Los Angeles-based director-producer scored an Oscar nomination for the documentary short "A Concerto is a Conversation," which traces the family lineage of co-director and composer Kris Bowers. Proudfoot said he was "floored" by the news and was fielding many congratulatory messages from Hollywood, but he was also facing a more sombre time, after travelling home to Halifax and finis...

Joey Siu, an activist featured in a new documentary, talks about the protests and China’s national security crackdown.