Two Park Slope residents won an Oscar this week for their short documentary Freeheld. Directed by Cynthia Wade and produced by Vanessa Roth, the film reports the struggle that Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester faced trying to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree. Hester was a 25-year veteran of the Ocean County, N.J., police force when she found out she had terminal cancer.
