Oscar Nomination Goes to Kitchen Documentary ‘Knife Skills’ | Eater

"A French fine-dining establishment in Cleveland that intentionally hires and trains formerly incarcerated people, operating a paid stipend program for students beginning culinary and front-of-house careers after prison. Its opening and the staffers' personal journeys are chronicled in the 40-minute documentary Knife Skills, which introduces kitchen and front-of-house members with notes about their past charges and received praise from Anthony Bourdain as “compelling, funny, heartbreaking and thoroughly human.” The film won the Audience Award at the Traverse City Film Festival and earned an Academy Award nomination for Documentary Short Subject, bringing wider attention to the restaurant’s rehabilitative, career-focused mission." - Greg Morabito