Documentary: 2023 Oscar-Nominated Short Films

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For the 18th consecutive year, ShortsTV presents the Oscar-Nominated Short Films (Documentary, Animated, and Live Action), your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)!

A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts before the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 12.

THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS
The Elephant Whisperers follows an indigenous couple as they fall in love with Raghu, an orphaned elephant given into their care, and tirelessly work to ensure his recovery and survival. Director: Kartiki Gonsalves (India 2022) 39 min

HAULOUT
A man is waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year. But ocean warming is taking its toll. Directors: Evgenia Arbugaeva, Maxim Arbugaev (UK/Russia 2022) 25 min

HOW DO WE MEASURE A YEAR?
For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking the same questions. What results is a unique chance to watch time, to see a young woman come into focus physically, mentally and emotionally. Director: Jay Rosenblatt (US 2022) 29 min

THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT
She was once as famous as Jackie O. And then she tried to take down a President. The Martha Mitchell Effect is an archival documentary portrait of the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: Martha Mitchell, a Republican cabinet wife who was gaslighted by the Nixon Administration to keep her quiet. It offers a female gaze on Watergate through the voice of the woman herself. Directors: Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy (US 2022) 39 min

STRANGER AT THE GATE
From Executive Producer Malala Yousafzai. After 25 years of service, a US Marine filled with hatred for Muslims plots to bomb an Indiana mosque. When he comes face to face with the immigrants he seeks to kill, the story takes a shocking twist toward compassion, grace, and forgiveness. Director: Joshua Seftel (US 2022) 30 min

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