Documentary Block: Art & Sports

 
 

Saturday, December 18th

1:00pm-3:00pm

Wall Street Theater

Sunday December 19th

1:00pm-3:00pm

Factory Underground (Downstairs)

 
  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.