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    Edith+Eddie is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Laura Checkoway and produced by Thomas Lee Wright. It was distributed by Kartemquin Films. When singer and entertainer Cher learned about the couple from a local news story, she offered to pay for repairs to the couple's home as well as Edith's medical bills.

  3. Director: Edith+Eddie. Laura Checkoway is an Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker known for intimate character-driven stories. Her film Edith+Eddie received an Academy Award nomination and Emmy nomination and won numerous awards including the IDA Documentary Awards Best Short.

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  4. Feb 9, 2018 · Directed By Laura Checkoway. Produced By Kartemquin Films. Made In USA. Jason Sondhi. Initially, Edith+Eddie, a short documentary from Kartemquin Films (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters), seems like a dose of concentrated cute—the kind of real life story designed to go viral on Facebook.

  5. Feb 23, 2018 · Golden Years: 'Edith + Eddie' Tells a Love Story. By Akiva Gottlieb. For journalist-turned-filmmaker Laura Checkoway, Edith + Eddie was supposed to be a heartwarming love story. Inspired by a photograph she saw online, Checkoway traveled to Alexandria, Virginia to profile America's oldest interracial newlyweds, aged 96 and 95, who married after ...

  6. Feb 27, 2018 · Kartemquin Films. -- When Laura Checkoway caught a bus down to Virginia from New York City to check out the story of Edith Hill and Eddie Harrison, whose picture was being circulated online as "America's oldest interracial couple," she had no idea it would lead her on the road to her first Oscar nomination.

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  7. Apr 25, 2021 · The most wrenching scene in the film plays out over a black screen, as the couple is forcibly separated by Jessica, the legal guardian appointed by Edith’s daughter in Florida, Patricia Barber. We had been filming throughout the day with Edith and Eddie at their home.

  8. Feb 18, 2018 · Edith + Eddie,” an Oscar-nominated documentary short, follows the love story of the oldest interracial newlywed couple. The couple, both in their 90s, fall victim to a custody battle that threatens to separate them from each other.

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