Documentary Block: Art & Sports
Saturday, December 18th
1:00pm-3:00pm
Wall Street Theater
Sunday December 19th
1:00pm-3:00pm
Factory Underground (Downstairs)
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Lessons
Director: Jude Kalman
In "Lessons", award-winning cinematographer Jude Kalman partners with debut screenwriter Summer Brown whose script delivers a heart-wrenching snapshot of her lived experience of domestic abuse through the eyes of children, learning lessons for life. What are your kids learning?
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Myrtle Simpson - A Life On Ice
Director: Leigh Anne Sides
Myrtle Simpson - trailblazer, pioneer, adventurer, mountain climber, polar explorer, writer, and mother. In 2017, over fifty years after she became the first woman to cross the polar ice cap covering Greenland, she was awarded the Polar Medal - a gift from Queen Elizabeth II as thanks for services in the Arctic.
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Like the Girls Who Wear Pink
Director: Jennifer Msumba
A time-traveling video finds its way to 1981. A plea from the future, it serves as warning, woven together with hope and encouragement, for a young autistic girl. And perhaps for us all.
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A Documentary of My Family
Director: Shayna Jenkins
Looking back in order to look forward. 10 years after leaving, filmmaker Shayna Jenkins explores what it means to call somewhere home.
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Far From Home: The Steve Dalkowski Story
Director: Tom Chiappetta
The extraordinary life story of the greatest baseball pitcher who never was. Steve Dalkowski from New Britain, Connecticut was the town's high school sports hero, blessed with a left arm labeled a "gift of the gods" by baseball experts in the 1950s. Frustrations didn’t prevent him from becoming a “living legend” yet he never pitched a single day in the major leagues.
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Space Particle Hoop Court
Director: Byron Soza
This documentary styled installation follows Norwalk CT. artist Jahmane as he creates the visual re-design of the updated basketball court at Ryan Park (Washington Village) in South Norwalk CT.
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Where Theater Began
Director: Katie Colwell
Ten Oakland University theater students travel from Michigan to the Island of Hydra, Greece to rehearse and perform the Greek play, Orestes, and to experience where theater began.