Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Movie
Original title	Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2016
length	40 minutes
Rod
Director	Frank boots
production	Frank boots
music	Paul Maroon
camera	Frank boots
cut	Ting Poo
occupation
	Mindy Alper;

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 (German Der Himmel ist ein Verkehrsstau auf der 405 ) is an American documentary from 2016 . The focus of the film is the artist Mindy Alper .

The film premiered in October 2016 at the Austin Film Festival . The film won an Oscar in the “ Best Documentary Short ” category at the 90th Academy Awards .

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The film Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 is based on interviews that the film's director, Frank Stiefel, had with the artist Mindy Alper for more than 20 hours. Alper channeled her inner fears, depression, trauma and the like in drawings and paper mache sculptures.

The title of the documentation comes from Alper himself.

Awards

At the 2018 Academy Awards , Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 came out on top in the “Best Documentary Short Film” category against Edith + Eddie , Heroin (s) , Knife Skills and Traffic Stop . The short film also won both audience and jury awards at the Full Frame Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival. It was also nominated for best short film at the IDA Awards .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Academy Award Winners 2018: The Complete List. In: variety.com. March 4, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
↑ A Portrait of an Artist: 'Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405'. In: International Documentary Association. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
↑ See The Oscars' Shortlist of Documentary Shorts. In: Hartford Courant. February 16, 2018, accessed August 17, 2018 .
^ Matthew Carey: Heaven Is A Traffic Jam Director On Doc Subject Mindy Alper: She's The Most Human Of Us Humans. In: Deadline. November 20, 2017, accessed March 5, 2018 .

Web links

[Oscar-1] Academy Award Winners 2018: The Complete List. In: variety.com. March 4, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .

[2] A Portrait of an Artist: 'Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405'. In: International Documentary Association. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .

[3] See The Oscars' Shortlist of Documentary Shorts. In: Hartford Courant. February 16, 2018, accessed August 17, 2018 .

[4] Matthew Carey: Heaven Is A Traffic Jam Director On Doc Subject Mindy Alper: She's The Most Human Of Us Humans. In: Deadline. November 20, 2017, accessed March 5, 2018 .