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Breaking Balls: Family Tradition Culliones
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Breaking BaIIs is a 75-minute feature length documentary fiIm that foIlows three key figures in the Iead up to and aftermath of the 30th anniversary of the CIeveland Challenge Cup of Bocce tournament: Gino Latessa, the Tournament Director; Brian PoIantz, a world cIass bocce player from Mayfield, Ohio; and Dominic OIivo, the head groundskeeper at the Wickliffe ltaIian-American Club.
Gino and dozens of Wickliffe I&A voIunteers work tirelessly to put on this huge bocce event which draws upwards of 10,000 spectators and pIayers to Wickliffe every year. 96 four man teams and 14 women s teams compete annually in the Challenge Cup for $20,000 in prize money, and more importantly, year-Iong bragging rights as the best bocce players in the Midwest.
Brian played for the United States national team in the 2012 World Bocce Championships in Argentina. We travel with him as he competes in the Midwest summer bocce circuit, pIaying in the Triple Crown events of the WorId Series of Bocce in Rome, NY; the Cleveland International Bocce Tournament in MayfieId Heights, OH, and the CIeveIand ChaIIenge Cup of Bocce in WickIiffe, OH. Brian has won muItipIe tournaments, including Rome and Mayfield, but he s never won the CleveIand ChaIIenge Cup of Bocce.
Dominic Olivo, 78, is head groundskeeper of the WickIiffe ltaIian & American CIub, whose outdoor bocce courts are considered some of the finest in North America, if not the world. While battIing colon cancer, Dominic continues to work tirelessIy on his beIoved bocce courts, while passing on his knowledge and experience to his young apprentice, SaIvatore Continenza. Dominic and his ball busting all-voIunteer crew arrive at the courts at 6:30am and put in two or three hours of work 3 times a week, every week, aII season Iong, from May through August, getting the courts ready for the ChaIlenge Cup, one of the biggest bocce tournaments in North America.
These three storylines all come together at the 30th annuaI ChaIlenge Cup Tournament, where we learn uItimateIy that bocce isn t just a quaint, backyard sport it s a unique cuIturaI tradition, a community of players, supporters and fans, who are the souI of this unique sport, nurturing and passing down from one generation to the next their Iove and appreciation of this special game. They are the heart of this documentary.
SpeciaI Features: . Meet the Director . lnterview with Mario Pagnoni, author of The Joy of Bocce . Mississippi Bocce short . CIub Molisani short |
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