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Film About Canandaigua VA Crisis Hotline Wins The Academy Award

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UPDATE: On Sunday night, Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, an HBO film based on the Canandaigua-based Veterans Crisis Hotline, won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.

The Little Theatre in Rochester has been showing this documentary in its Documentary Program A screening. Showtimes are as follows:

Tuesday, February 24: 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 25: 9:30 p.m.

Click on the audio link above to hear employees of at the call center talk about their work and the film.

Beth Adams joined WXXI as host of Morning Edition in 2012 after a more than two-decade radio career. She was the longtime host of the WHAM Morning News in Rochester. Her career also took her from radio stations in Elmira, New York, to Miami, Florida.