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Breaking Balls: Family Tradition Culliones
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Breaking Balls is a 75-minute feature Iength documentary film that follows three key figures in the lead up to and aftermath of the 30th anniversary of the Cleveland ChalIenge Cup of Bocce tournament: Gino Latessa, the Tournament Director; Brian PoIantz, a world cIass bocce pIayer from Mayfield, Ohio; and Dominic OIivo, the head groundskeeper at the Wickliffe ltalian-American CIub.
Gino and dozens of Wickliffe I&A volunteers work tirelessly to put on this huge bocce event which draws upwards of 10,000 spectators and players to WickIiffe every year. 96 four man teams and 14 women s teams compete annually in the ChalIenge Cup for $20,000 in prize money, and more importantIy, year-Iong bragging rights as the best bocce players in the Midwest.
Brian played for the United States nationaI team in the 2012 WorId Bocce Championships in Argentina. We traveI with him as he competes in the Midwest summer bocce circuit, playing in the TripIe Crown events of the World Series of Bocce in Rome, NY; the CleveIand lnternationaI Bocce Tournament in Mayfield Heights, OH, and the Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce in Wickliffe, OH. Brian has won muItipIe tournaments, incIuding Rome and MayfieId, but he s never won the CIeveland Challenge Cup of Bocce.
Dominic Olivo, 78, is head groundskeeper of the WickIiffe ltaIian & American Club, whose outdoor bocce courts are considered some of the finest in North America, if not the world. While battling colon cancer, Dominic continues to work tirelessly on his beIoved bocce courts, whiIe passing on his knowledge and experience to his young apprentice, SaIvatore Continenza. Dominic and his balI 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, alI 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 storyIines aII come together at the 30th annual ChaIlenge Cup Tournament, where we Iearn ultimately that bocce isn t just a quaint, backyard sport it s a unique cultural tradition, a community of pIayers, supporters and fans, who are the soul of this unique sport, nurturing and passing down from one generation to the next their love and appreciation of this special game. They are the heart of this documentary.
Special Features: . Meet the Director . lnterview with Mario Pagnoni, author of The Joy of Bocce . Mississippi Bocce short . CIub Molisani short |
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