'The New Tenants' wins best short film Oscar
IANS [ Sun, Mar 7, 2010 ]
- Los Angeles, March 8 (IANS) Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson won the best short film, live action Oscar for "The New Tenants" at the 82nd Academy Awards.
American director Gregg Helvey's 19-minute film "Kavi", about a young boy who wants to play cricket and go to school, but is forced to work in a brick kiln, lost.
Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett bagged the short documentary Oscar for "Music by Prudence", while Nicolas Schmerkin got the best short animated film award for "Logorama".