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The film’s director, Anthony Giacchino, grew up in Edgewater Park, Burlington County.
He found 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine when he was in France scouting out another project.
Giacchino, accepting the award, noted that her (93rd) birthday falls on the Oscars.
Marin-Catherine’s brother, Jean-Pierre, died at the German Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp after he was arrested as a member of the French Resistance when he was 17.
The Nazis forced Jean-Pierre into slave labor, ordering him to spend entire days in an underground tunnel making bombs for the Germans. He died in 1945, three weeks before Americans liberated the camp.
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Colette, written and directed by Emmy-winning filmmaker Anthony Giacchino, produced by Oculus Studios and Respawn Entertainment, and released by The Guardian, has won an Oscar for best short documentary.
Executive produced by Peter Hirschmann and produced by Alice Doyard, Annie Small and Aaron Matthews,
Colette triumphed at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning the ‘Best Documentary, Short Subject’ category at a ceremony held in Los Angeles, California (Sunday 25 April).
Colette is the first Guardian documentary to win an Oscar, building on the success of
Colette’s executive producers for the Guardian were Charlie Phillips, Lindsay Poulton and Jess Gormley.
April 26th, 2021
Oculus
The documentary short
Colettewon an Oscar last night, a first for the video game industry, and it took an unusual route to get there. The film was originally produced by Oculus Studios and EA s Respawn Entertainment as part of the first-person shooter VR game
Medal of Honor s historical accuracy aims, players can unlock short Gallery films (in a regular 2D format) about real-life WW II veterans as they progress through the game. Among those is a 24-minute piece on Colette Marin-Catherine.
Directed by Anthony Giacchino, the film tells the story of Colette, who is now 90 years old and one of the last surviving French Resistance members. After the war she refused to set foot in Germany, but was eventually persuaded to do so by a young history student, Lucie Fouble. Once there, she visits the Nazi concentration camp where her brother, Jean-Pierre, was killed.