Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Film poster
Directed byFrank Stiefel
StarringMindy Alper
Distributed byIndieWire (online)[1]
Grasshopper Film (US)[2]
Release date
  • October 2016 (2016-10) (Austin Film Festival)
Running time
40 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405 is a 2016 American documentary film directed by Frank Stiefel. Its subject is the artist Mindy Alper. The film earned a nomination for Best Short from the IDA Awards, and won both audience and jury awards at both the Full Frame Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival.[3] It won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 90th Academy Awards.[4][5]

  1. ^ Erbland, Kate (August 30, 2017). "'Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405' Short Film: Full Frame Winner Charts the Unique Path of a Very Special Artist — Watch". IndieWire. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  2. ^ bnewman. "Sub-Genre » Breaking the "rules" to win an Oscar for Short Docs". Archived from the original on January 16, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  3. ^ Carey, Matthew (November 20, 2017). "'Heaven Is A Traffic Jam' Director On Doc Subject Mindy Alper: "She's The Most Human Of Us Humans"". Deadline. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  4. ^ "Oscars 2018: The list of nominees in full". BBC News. January 23, 2018. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  5. ^ "Heaven Is a Traffic Jam on the 405" wins Best Documentary Short Subject-Oscars on YouTube

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