‘The Last Repair Shop’ will be the first Oscar-nominated short to air on television

“The Last Repair Shop" will air on broadcast television this weekend, a first for an Oscar nominated short documentary. It is also available to stream on Hulu and Disney+.

Bowers, an acclaimed composer whose has scored many films and television shows including "King Richard" and "The Color Purple," said he found out that one of the main subjects in the film, Steve Bagmanyan, "personally tuned the school pianos that I grew up playing and learning on." As a kid, he didn’t know the shop existed but he said he sees the film as paying a "delayed debt of gratitude to those unsung heroes who gave me and countless others the gift of music.

"It’s not too much to say I owe my career to people like the four repair people in our film," Bowers said.