Films about immigrants, retirees in Florida and ballet shoemakers are among the final films in the running for the Academy Award for Documentary Short, the academy announced on Thursday.
The eight-film doc-short shortlist includes The Education of Mohammed Hussein, a short from Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady about an anti-Islamic preacher and his impact on children in the largest Muslim community in the United States; Inocente, an Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine film about a homeless teen from Mexico who has managed to become an artist; Kings Point, Sari Gilman's look at the residents of a retirement community in Florida; Mondays at Racine, a film from Cynthia Wade about a hair salon that devotes one day a month to women with cancer.
