Two Netflix shorts — one on the topic ofpolice brutality and one on gun violence — were honored Sunday at the Oscars. If Anything Happens I Love You-- which follows two parents grieving the loss of their child in a school shooting -- won the Oscar for best animated short, while Two Distant Strangers collected the Academy Award for a live-action short.
Writer-director Travon Free, who became the first Black winner in this category, and director Martin Desmond Roe accepted the award for Two Distant Strangers, which addresses the topic with the story of a Black man who is in a time loop in which he keeps dying at the hands of a police officer. 'Today the police will kill three people, and tomorrow the police will kill three people...
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