Compton-based filmmaker Victor Gabriel is among a select group of filmmakers to punch their ticket for the Oscar race, after scoring wins at the HollyShorts Film Festival. Gabriel’s 13-minute film …
won the Grand Prix for Best Short at the festival’s awards ceremony on Saturday afternoon. HollyShorts is an Oscar-qualifying festival, so the win formakes it immediately eligible for Oscar consideration. Producer Duran Jones won the festival’s Best Producer prize., directed by Seemab Gul, won Best Live Action short, andActor Stephen Laroy Thomas in ‘Hallelujah’touches on the loss of someone to gun violence, a tragedy with ripple effects on several members of a family.
Gabriel wears several hats besides filmmaker, working in addition as a marriage and family therapist and at a residential treatment center for teenagers, he told Deadline. “I [also] facilitate a Black male trauma group once a month in South Central.” “I’ve been commuting to work, been struggling with a lot of losses this year,” Gabriel said. “So, just to have like a little celebration and people honoring my work, our work, is just amazing. I’m just grateful, man.” followed up his victory at the Academy Awards in March with a win for his latest documentary short,The film tells the story of Patsy Takemoto Mink, a Hawaii Democrat who became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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