The Last Repair Shop
2024 | 40m | English
Popularity: 1 (history)
| Director: | Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers |
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| Writer: | |
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| In a warehouse in the heart of Los Angeles, a dwindling handful of devoted craftspeople maintain more than 80,000 student musical instruments, the largest remaining workshop in America of its kind. Meet four unforgettable characters whose broken-and-repaired lives have been dedicated to bringing so much more than music to the schoolchildren of this city. | |
| Release Date: | Feb 16, 2024 |
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| Director: | Ben Proudfoot, Kris Bowers |
| Writer: | |
| Genres: | Music, Documentary |
| Keywords | lgbt, documentary short |
| Production Companies | Breakwater Studios, LA Times Studios |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 01, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Dana Atkinson | Self |
| Duane Michaels | Self |
| Paty Moreno | Self |
| Steve Bagmanyan | Self |
| Ken Burget | Self - The Piano Tuner |
| Vincent Womack | Self - L.A.U.S.D. Music Teacher Since 19987 |
| Boris Karloff | The Monster (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Tom Parker | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Elvis Presley | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Ben Proudfoot | Director |
| Kris Bowers | Music, Director |
| Katya Richardson | Original Music Composer |
| David Feeney-Mosier | Director of Photography |
| Nick Garnham Wright | Editor |
| Sean Higgins | Supervising Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Stephen Derluguian | Colorist |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Peter Rotter | Executive Producer |
| Briana Henry | Executive Producer |
| Jane Solomon | Executive Producer |
| Jeremy Lambert | Producer |
| Josh Rosenberg | Producer |
| Sharon Matthews | Executive Producer |
| Terry Tang | Executive Producer |
| Jason Spingarn-Koff | Executive Producer |
| Leslie Lindsey | Executive Producer |
| Shani Hilton | Co-Executive Producer |
| Nani Sahra Walker | Co-Executive Producer |
| Jessica Q. Chen | Associate Producer |
| Ben Proudfoot | Producer |
| Kris Bowers | Producer |
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| 2024 | 4 | 17 | 24 | 11 |
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This is quite an engaging documentary that introduces us to four specialist technicians who maintain some of the musical instruments that are provided free to pupils in the Los Angeles school system. Prefaced by a few words from each of the children who benefit from the violins, tubas, pianos and sa ... xophones to name but a few, we then meet four of the people - from a variety of interesting, sometimes quite traumatic, backgrounds - as they show us just how meticulously they work to keep these instruments alive and useful. To be honest, I could have been doing with just a little more performance from the would-be students, but these characters who put their heart and soul into preserving these musical tools come across as dedicated and passionate. The same can be said for the students - especially the young violinist at the start whose smile just about says it all. We end with a rousing section from the alumni of students who have benefitted over the years and this is a fine testament to the role of music in an education system that doesn't just focus on the academic.