At a ceremony on Wednesday, the filmmakers of the documentary, The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, spoke about the 110-year-old musician who inspired their Academy Award nominated documentary.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who died on Sunday in a London hospital, was known to be the oldest Holocaust survivor. Director Malcolm Clarke said about her, “We thought she was going to go on forever," according to the Associated Press.
The 38-minute film is about the skilled accomplished concert pianist who was a prisoner in 1943. This is the third Oscar nomination for Clarke, who won an Academy Award in 1998. The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life was executive produced by Phillip Goldfine, Larry Abramson, and Frederic Bohbot, according to Deadline. The movie can be seen on April 1 in the U.S. and Canada on Netflix.
The film is nominated for Documentary Short along with the battlefield expose Dirty Wars, Japanese artist portrait, Cutie and the Boxer, Indonesian death squad odyssey The Act of Killing, and Egyptian revolution recount The Square.
The 86th Annual Academy Awards will be held on March 2 at the Dolby Theatre.