Director Laura Checkoway talks about receiving her first Oscar nomination. — -- When Laura Checkoway caught a bus down to Virginia from New York City to check out the story of Edith Hill and ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Edith + Eddie," a front-runner to win an Oscar for best short documentary, is one of two nominations for Chicago's Kartemquin film company. The Oscars have come and gone, but it's ...

Topic Studios has picked up the streaming rights to Edith+Eddie, the short documentary which will be vying for the Oscar statue next month. Directed by Laura Checkoway and exec produced by ...

From festival prizes to an Oscar nomination, Laura Checkoway has received many honors for her film "Edith + Eddie." Another one arrives this week with the documentary's screening in her Ann Arbor ...

As Edith Pearlman wrote short stories or walked through Brookline, she paid close and careful attention to the lives around her, drawing details and characters from those she watched. “I observe from ...