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- ↑ "Doc NYC". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ↑ "Oscar Nominations 2017: See the Full List". Vanity Fair. January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Oscar Nominations 2017: Best Documentary Short Subjact". Oscars.com. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
- ↑ "Oscar Nominations 2017: The Complete List - 89th Academy Awards". Oscars.com. January 24, 2017. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
- ↑ Shauger, Mollie. "Montclair filmmakers heading to Academy Awards ceremony", The Record ,February 22, 2017. Accessed December 3, 2020. "'And the Oscar goes to...' They are five words only a select number of actors and filmmakers get to hear in person in their lifetimes. Montclair residents Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen can count themselves among that group this year."
