The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement, a documentary portrait of activist James Armstrong, has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short category.
Co-directed by Bay Area photographer Robin Fryday and veteran filmmaker Gail Dolgin, the film features the titular barber recounting his lifelong activism, which included a 1957 lawsuit against the Birmingham Board of Education, participation in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign and a place at the head of the line on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma during the 1965 march that came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
This is Fryday’s first Oscar nomination. Dolgin, who died in October 2011, was previously nominated for her documentary feature Daughter from Danang. Other nominees in the Documentary Short category include God is the Bigger Elvis, Incident in New Baghdad, Saving Face and The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom.
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Official website for The Barber of Birmingham
BhamWiki: James Armstrong
The 84th annual Academy Awards online
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