Academy Award Nominees: Best Documentary Short Film

synopsis

The Elephant Whisperers and The Martha Mitchell Effect are both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film. Here is a chance to see them both on the big screen, in a double-feature. In The Elephant Whisperers, Bomman and Bellie, a couple in South India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other that tests the barrier between the human and the animal world. The Martha Mitchell Effect is an archival 39-minute documentary portrait of the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: Martha Mitchell, a Republican cabinet wife who was gaslighted by the Nixon Administration to keep her quiet. It offers a female gaze on Watergate through the voice of the woman herself.