The Last Repair Shop (2023) on Netflix
NR202340mDocumentaryMusic
Since 1959, Los Angeles has fixed its public school students' instruments free of charge. In a downtown warehouse, craftspeople like Steve Bagmanyan keep about 80,000 of them playable.
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Plot summary
Los Angeles has offered its public school students free instrument repairs since 1959, one of the few American cities to do so. Around 80,000 instruments are maintained in a downtown warehouse, the largest remaining workshop of its kind, where a small group of craftspeople keeps them in playing condition for the schoolchildren of the city. The film profiles four of those craftspeople, each responsible for a section of the orchestra, and the students their work has shaped. Piano technician Steve Bagmanyan is an Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan; the violinist Porché Brinker is one of the students.
Cast
- Dana Atkinsonas Self
- Duane Michaelsas Self
- Paty Morenoas Self
- Steve Bagmanyanas Self
- Ken Burgetas Self - The Piano Tuner
- Vincent Womackas Self - L.A.U.S.D. Music Teacher Since 19987
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Repair Shop (2023)
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- Donations prompted by The Last Repair Shop led the LAUSD Education Foundation to begin a $15 million campaign for the instrument repair workshop, supporting its staff and a training program for students who will become future instrument technicians.
- After a February 16, 2024 theatrical release on more than 700 screens in the U.S. and Canada, the film aired on American Broadcasting Company owned stations and select affiliates the next day, becoming the first Oscar-nominated short documentary to air on television.
- Among the craftspeople interviewed is Steve Bagmanyan, a piano technician and Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan who had tuned the very pianos co-director Kris Bowers played in elementary and middle school.
