Now Streaming: ‘The ABCs of Book Banning,’ a Frontrunner for This Year’s Short Documentary Oscar
‘Book Banning’ goes up against another education documentary, ‘The Last Repair Shop,’ at Sunday night’s Academy Awards.
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Two short documentaries about students, schools and the education system are considered frontrunners at this weekend’s Academy Awards, and both are now available to stream ahead of the official Oscars telecast.
The ABCs of Book Banning, directed by Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi and Sheila Nevins, spotlights texts that have been challenged and/or restricted at school libraries across the country in recent years. In several sequences, students address the camera directly, read aloud from the publications, and share their thoughts on the furor surrounding the books.
You can stream the full film right now at Paramount+. Here’s recent footage from a lively post-screening panel discussion at the New York Public Library:
Elsewhere today at The 74, Ben Chapman spotlights another nominated film: The Last Repair Shop, which spotlights the four-person team who maintain and repair some 80,000 musical instruments provided free of charge to any and all public school students in Los Angeles.
You can learn more about the film, and stream it for free, right here.
The 96th annual Academy Awards air at 7 p.m. ET Sunday night on ABC.
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