The two 1997 Oscar-winning documentaries, Donna Dewey's A Story of Healing (right) and Mark Jonathan Harris' The Long Way Home, will be screened as the final installment of “Oscar’s Docs, Part Four: Academy Award-Winning Documentaries 1988–1997” on Monday, November 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The documentary short subject A Story of Healing follows American plastic surgeons and nurses who have volunteered to help disfigured children and young adults in Vietnam. The screening will be followed by an onstage discussion with producer-director Donna Dewey.
The documentary feature The Long Way Home focuses on the years between the liberation of Jews from Nazi concentration camps to the creation of Israel. It features narration and/or readings by Morgan Freeman, Michael York, Edward Asner, Helen Slater, and others. Writer-director Mark Jonathan Harris, producers Richard Trank and Rabbi Marvin Hier (whose Genocide, which he co-produced, won the 1991 Oscar in the documentary feature category), and editor Kate Amend will take part in a post-screening discussion.
“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. As per the Academy's release, the retrospective features the best available prints – often newly struck or restored editions from the documentary collection of the Academy Film Archive.
The series will return in September 2009 with its sixth installment, screening Academy Award-winning documentaries between 1988 and 2008.
Tickets to each “Oscar’s Docs” screening are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members and students with a valid ID.
Tickets are available for purchase by mail, online at www.oscars.org, 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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