Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone | |
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Directed by | Carol Dysinger |
Cinematography | Lisa Rinzler |
Edited by | Mary Manhardt |
Music by | Sasha Gordon |
Animation by | Fleur Davisz Simon Tubbs |
Release date |
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Running time | 39 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl) is a 2019 British documentary short film directed by Carol Dysinger and produced by Elena Andreicheva.[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 92nd Academy Awards.[2]
Summary[]
The film is about Skateistan, a nonprofit organization, which started as a skate school in 2007 for girls from impoverished neighborhoods learning to read, write, and skateboard in Kabul, Afghanistan, where young women are not allowed to participate in sporting activities.[3][4]
Awards[]
Academy Awards[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2020[5] | Best Documentary Feature (Short Subject) | Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl) | Won[6][7] |
BAFTA[]
Year | Category | Nominated work | Result |
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2020 | Best British Short Film | Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) | Won |
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl) | Tribeca Film Festival". Tribeca.
- ^ 2020|Oscars.org
- ^ "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl)". A&E.
- ^ "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you're a girl)". Film Independent.
- ^ Barsanti, Sam (February 9, 2020). "Here Are the Winners from the 92nd Academy Awards". The A.V. Club. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
- ^ "Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)" wins Best Documentary Short Subject-Oscars on YouTube
- ^ 2020|Oscars.org
External links[]
Categories:
- 2019 films
- British documentary films
- British films
- British short films
- Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners
- Skateboarding films
- Films set in Afghanistan
- Documentary films about sports
- Documentary films about education
- Education in Afghanistan
- Documentary films about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
- Documentary films about women in Afghanistan
- Women's sport in Afghanistan