EXCLUSIVE : Switchboard, a platform that mixes distributing documentary and live-action shorts with longform journalism, is preparing for its first Oscar campaign after picking up four titles.

The operation, launched by Celia Aniskovich, who has produced documentaries including Max’s Call Me Cleo and Beanie Mania , earlier this year, has acquired André Robert Lee and Tim Kirkman’s Freeman Vines , Harris Doran and Akbar Hamid’s Poreless , Jared and Carly Jakins’ Rat Rod , and Adam Oppenheim and Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian’s Saving Superman .

Switchboard will premiere all four projects on November 10 on its site and YouTube channel and will promote all four collectively to spotlight short-form filmmaking during the awards season.

The three documentaries and one comedy hav

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