A TIME FOR JUSTICE, MAYA LIN: Oscar’s Docs
The two 1994 Oscar-winning documentaries, the short A Time for Justice (right) and the feature Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, will be screened as part of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1988–1997” on Monday, November 3, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The evening will feature a post-screening discussion with Maya Lin producer-director Frieda Lee Mock, producer Terry Sanders, composer Charles Bernstein, and editor William T. Cartwright.
Produced by Charles Guggenheim, A Time for Justice focuses on the American Civil Rights Movement from the point of view of those who fought for the right to vote during the 1950s and 1960s.
Maya Lin (right) is about the artist who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. This screening will present a new 35mm print.
[Photo: The Vietnam War Memorial.
Adam Stoltman.]
Now, this was the year when the Academy saw itself accused of favoritism because Mock had previously been the chairwoman of the Documentary Committee. Compounding matters, the Academy was accused of near-sightedness after Steve James‘ widely praised Hoop Dreams failed to nab a nomination in the documentary feature category. In the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan remarked that if Committee members "knew the meaning of the word shame they would now be making arrangements for mass suicides."
“Oscar’s Docs” is a comprehensive screening series of every short subject and feature to win the Academy Award for documentary filmmaking since the category was established in 1941.
Tickets to each “Oscar’s Docs” screenings are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID.
Tickets are available for purchase by mail, at the Academy box office, or online at www.oscars.org by mail, or in person at the Academy box office at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard during regular business hours. Doors open one hour prior to the start of the event. All seating is unreserved.
The Linwood Dunn Theater is located at 1313 Vine Street in Hollywood. Free parking is available through the entrance on Homewood Avenue (one block north of Fountain Avenue).
For additional information, visit www.oscars.org or call (310) 247-3600.
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I found Maya Lin a very good documentary. I can’t say it was the best of the year, but it was good. That Oscar wasn’t undeserved.