Villanova University graduate Anthony Giacchino partnered with Facebook and Electronic Arts to create “Colette,” which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject, writes Kevin Riordan for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Giacchino, a 1992 graduate with a BA in history and German, directed the 25-minute film.

Giacchino, 51, worked for the History Channel for 12 years, winning an Emmy for his History Channel series, “Great Moments From the Campaign Trail.”

“Colette” came about after Electronic Arts contacted Giacchino in 2016 asking for documentary content for  its Word War II video game, “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.”

Giacchino partnered with co-nominee Alice Doyard on the film.

‘Colette’ depicts an elderly Frenchwoman’s journey to a Nazi concentration camp site in Germany where her brother died in 1945.

The 92-year-old forms a bond with Lucie Fouble, a teenage historian who travels with her.

“As a documentary filmmaker, you can kind of hope that specific things will happen, but at some point you have to give yourself over to the events that are going to be your story,” Giacchino said. “If you try to control it too much, you can really derail beautiful things that might happen.”

Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer about Anthony Giacchino and “Colette.”