The New York Times Op-Docs, the Academy Award-winning distributor behind The Queen of Basketball and other award-winning shorts, debuted the documentary short film Island in Between from director S. Leo Chiang today on The New York Times. The film had its world premiere at the Hawaii International Film Festival and screened at SFFILM Doc Stories 2023. It is a contender for the 2024 Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Short category. Op-Docs, The Times’s award-winning short documentary film series, is part of The Times’s Opinion video department. Press Contacts:Charlie Stadtlander, Director, External Communications, Newsroom and OpinionThe New York Times973-573-2388 • charlie.stadtlander@nytimes.comAdam J. Segal of The 2050 Group – Publicity212-642-4317 • adam@the2050group.com

Source: New York Times December 05, 2023 17:07 UTC