The shorts category features two documentaries, “ A Concerto is a Conversation ” and “ Colette,” about fellow nonagenarians who have led extraordinary and extraordinarily different lives. One, Horace Bowers, is a 93-year-old Black man born in the Jim Crow South who became a successful business owner in California and the grandfather of a prominent composer. The other, Colette Marin-Catherine, is a French woman who was part of the resistance during World War II. Born in Bascom Florida, Horace Bowers remembers distinctly a peer of his calling his father “boy” when he was 6 or 7 and knowing at that moment that he had to leave. “The academy members have to take advantage of this amazing opportunity to celebrate someone who’s almost the same age as the academy,” Marin-Catherine said.

Source: ABC News April 16, 2021 15:56 UTC