Oscar-Nominated Short Film ‘A Concerto is a Conversation’ celebrates Local legend Horace Bowers and Bowers & Sons Cleaners
By Lapacazo Sandoval, Contributing Writer
Published April 22, 2021
Horace Bowers shares a laugh with his grandson Kris Bowers inside the family’s dry cleaners
Now, this is a sign of divine alignment. The Oscars and Bowers & Sons Cleaners, the subject of the Oscar-nominated short documentary “A Concerto is a Conversation,” located at 2509 South Central Avenue in Los Angeles, are both celebrating their 93rd year.
“A Concerto is a Conversation” creative team held a press event, last week, and an in conversation with the virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer Kris Bowers, who tracks his family’s lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather Horace from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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The Rehoboth Beach Film Society will be offering several screenings of the Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Films, Best Animated Short Films and Best Documentary Short Films, beginning Friday, April 9, at the Cinema Art Theater and as streaming films. Check rehobothfilm.com to purchase tickets online and access streaming links.
The nominees for Best Live Action Short films are:
• “Feeling Through” is the first film to feature a deaf/blind actor in a lead role. It is a coming-of-age story that follows Tereek, a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie, a deaf/blind man in need of assistance getting to a bus stop. Out of an awkward meeting between strangers emerges an intimate bond, and a journey that forever changes Tereek.