We already know the ten Shortlisted works for the Hollywood Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film.
Among them we find the work of a Spaniard, the short 'Minerita' by Raúl de la Fuente, which reaches the Oscar preselection after having won the Goya for the best documentary short film in 2014.
This film, which tells the story of a woman and two girls who work in a mine in the Cerro Rico de Potosí in Bolivia, a territory without law and brutal violenceIt has also won other awards in addition to the Goya, such as the Young Award at the San Sebastián Human Rights Festival, the Best Documentary Short Film at the San Diego Latino Film Festival or a Special Mention at the Krakow Film Festival.
Short Documentary Films Shortlisted for the Oscar
“Body Team 12” by David Darg (RYOT Films / Vulcan Productions)
"Chau, beyond the Lines" by Courtney Marsh (Cynasty Films)
"Claude Lanzmann: Specter of the Shoah" by Adam Benzine (Jet Black Iris America)
"50 Feet from Syria" by Skye Fitzgerald (Spin Film)
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (SOC Films)
"Last Day of Freedom" by Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi talisman (Living Condition)
"Minerita" by Raúl de la Fuente (Kanaki Films)
"My Enemy, My Brother" by Ann Shin (Fathom Film Group)
“Starting Point” of Michal szczesniak (Munk Studio / Polish Filmmakers Association)
Vanessa Block's “The Testimony” (Atria Film in association with Escape Artists)