The Last Repair Shop
Official poster
Directed by
Produced by
  • Ben Proudfoot
  • Jeremy Lambert
  • Josh Rosenberg
  • Kris Bowers
Starring
  • Dana Atkinson
  • Paty Moreno
  • Duane Michaels
  • Steve Bagmanyan
CinematographyDavid Feeney-Mosier
Edited byNick Garnham Wright
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release date
  • September 1, 2023 (2023-09-01) (Telluride)
Running time
39 minutes
Country
  • United States
LanguageEnglish

The Last Repair Shop is a 2023 American short documentary film directed by Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers. The documentary is about a Los Angeles downtown warehouse where a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople keep over 80,000 student instruments in good repair. Produced by Breakwater Studios, the film had its world premiere on September 1, 2023 at 50th Telluride Film Festival,[1] and on September 24, 2023, at 2023 Calgary International Film Festival, where it won the Best Documentary Short Film award.[2]

It also won Best Short Documentary award at 8th Critics' Choice Documentary Awards and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.[3][4]

It was made available for streaming on YouTube and Los Angeles Times on November 8, 2023.[5]

Cast

  • Dana Atkinson
  • Paty Moreno
  • Duane Michaels
  • Steve Bagmanyan

Production

Proudfoot and Bowers previously co-directed Concerto is a Conversation, a 2022 Oscar nominee in the short documentary category. That film's producer, Jeremy Lambert, passed along an article on the Los Angeles Unified School District's 64-year-old workshop.[6]

That workshop, much smaller than Bowers had imagined when he was an LAUSD student, became the subject of the film, including profiles of four of the workshop's craftspeople. Bowers, whose first instrument was a school-provided saxophone, felt they should profile students, as well.[6] Among the staff interviewed was Steve Bagmanyan, a piano technician and Azerbaijan refugee, who had tunned the pianos Bowers had used in elementry and middle school.[7]

Release

The film had its world premiere on September 1, 2023 at 50th Telluride Film Festival in 'Main Slate: Episodic Form and Short Form' section.[8] It was screened at Middleburg Film Festival in October 2023.[9]

On October 18, 2023 Searchlight Pictures and L.A. Times Studio acquired the film and set the online streaming release date.[10]

It was made available for streaming on YouTube and Los Angeles Times on November 8, 2023.[11]

It is the first time that L.A. Times Studio has featured on Oscars shortlist, made possible by this film.[12]

Original soundtrack

The Last Repair Shop
Soundtrack album by
Katya Richardson and Kris Bowers
ReleasedNovember 24, 2023 (2023-11-24)[13]
Recorded2023
GenreSoundtrack
Length29:54
LanguageEnglish
LabelLakeshore Records
Audio Full Album
audio icon The Last Repair Shop (Original Score)
There are 22 tracks in the album:
No.TitleArtistLength
1."The Last Repair Shop"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers2:06
2."Dana: Strings"Katya Richardson0:38
3."It’s Hard Being a Kid"Katya Richardson0:40
4."I Thought I Was Broken"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:13
5."Practice Makes Perfect"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers0:38
6."I’m Still Here"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers0:48
7."Paty: Brass"Katya Richardson0:59
8."My Story"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:13
9."American Dream"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers0:57
10."My Son"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers0:51
11."The Test"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:54
12."All These Years"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:29
13."Duane: Woodwinds"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers0:56
14."Frankenstein"Katya Richardson0:31
15."Swap Meet"Katya Richardson1:04
16."Dream a Little"Katya Richardson0:36
17."Steve: Pianos"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers2:13
18."Baku, 1987"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:46
19."We Left Everything"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers1:26
20."See How Life Is?"Katya Richardson, Kris Bowers2:02
21."I Love the Violin"Katya Richardson2:02
22."The Alumni"Kris Bowers3:45
Total length:29:00

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Calgary International Film Festival October 1, 2023 Best Documentary Short Film The Last Repair Shop Won [14]
Middleburg Film Festival October 22, 2023 Sheila Johnson Vanguard Award Kris Bowers Won [15]
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards November 12, 2023 Best Short Documentary The Last Repair Shop Won [16]
Best Score Katya Richardson & Kris Bowers Nominated
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 15, 2023 Best Original Score – Short Film (Documentary) The Last Repair Shop Nominated [17]
Astra Film and Creative Awards January 6, 2024 Best Short Film Nominated [18]
Black Reel Awards January 16, 2024 Outstanding Independent Short Film Pending [19]

Listicle

Publisher Year Listicle Placement Ref.
Variety 2023 Shorts showcase of 15 titles at Doc NYC Included [20]
17th Cinema Eye Honors Shorts List (Cinema Eye's Annual List of the Year's Top Short Documentaries) Included [21]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Carey, Matthew (September 3, 2023). "Directors Ben Proudfoot And Kris Bowers Premiere 'The Last Repair Shop' At Telluride, Doc About Awesome Foursome Who Help L.A. School Kids Make Music". Deadline. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  2. ↑ Grobar, Matt (October 18, 2023). "Searchlight Pictures, L.A. Times Board Doc Short 'The Last Repair Shop' From Kris Bowers, Ben Proudfoot". Deadline. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  3. ↑ "96th Oscars Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. December 21, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  4. ↑ Davis, Clayton (December 21, 2023). "Oscar Shortlists Announced for 10 Categories: 'Barbie' Leads the Way". Variety. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  5. ↑ The Last Repair Shop | L.A. Times Short Docs & Searchlight Pictures | The New Yorker Documentary. YouTube. Los Angeles Times. November 8, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  6. 1 2 Coates, Tyler (December 19, 2023). "Kris Bowers Is the Busiest Composer in the World". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  7. ↑ Chiotakis, Steve (November 16, 2023). "For 6 decades, this shop has offered free instrument repairs to LA students". KCRW. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  8. ↑ Thompson, Anne (August 30, 2023). "2023 Telluride Film Festival Lineup Leans on Filmmakers Like Lanthimos, Fennell, Haigh, Triet, and More". IndieWire. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  9. ↑ "2023 Films & Events". Middleburg Film Festival. October 18, 2023. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  10. ↑ Kay, Jeremy (October 19, 2023). "Searchlight, L.A. Times Studios acquire award-winning short 'The Last Repair Shop'". ScreenDaily. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  11. ↑ Bowers, Kris (November 8, 2023). "The Last Repair Shop". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  12. ↑ Saad, Nardine (December 21, 2023). "'The Last Repair Shop' earns L.A. Times Studios a spot on Oscars shortlist for the first time". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  13. ↑ "The Last Repair Shop (Original Score)". Apple Music. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  14. ↑ Toombs, Aryn (September 25, 2023). "Winners of 2023 CIFF competitions unveiled". LiveWire Calgary. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  15. ↑ Magrira (October 29, 2023). "'The Last Repair Shop' – A Moving Short Documentary". Los Angeles Sentinel. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  16. ↑ Zilko, Christian (November 12, 2023). "'Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie' Sweeps the Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Complete Winners List)". IndieWire. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  17. ↑ "2023 HMMA Winners and Nominees". Hollywood Music in Media Awards. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  18. ↑ "AwardsWatch - Barbie and Oppenheimer Lead Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) Astra Awards Nominations". AwardsWatch. December 7, 2023. Retrieved December 8, 2023.
  19. ↑ Complex, Valerie (December 15, 2023). "Black Reel Awards Nominations: 'The Color Purple' And 'Rustin' Dominate". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 16, 2023.
  20. ↑ Davis, Clayton (October 17, 2023). "DOC NYC, Key Indicator for Oscars' Documentary Feature Category, Announces Shortlist Including 'American Symphony' and 'Every Body'". Variety. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
  21. ↑ Carey, Matthew (October 19, 2023). "'The 1619 Project,' 'Nothing Lasts Forever' Lead Charge As Cinema Eye Honors Announces First Round Of Documentary Nominations [Full List]". Deadline. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
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