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Breaking Balls: Family Tradition Culliones
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(DVD - Code 1)
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Breaking BaIIs is a 75-minute feature length documentary fiIm that follows 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 pIayer from Mayfield, Ohio; and Dominic OIivo, the head groundskeeper at the Wickliffe ltaIian-American Club.
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 pIayers to Wickliffe every year. 96 four man teams and 14 women s teams compete annuaIIy in the ChaIlenge Cup for $20,000 in prize money, and more importantly, year-Iong bragging rights as the best bocce pIayers in the Midwest.
Brian pIayed 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 World Series of Bocce in Rome, NY; the CIeveIand lnternationaI Bocce Tournament in Mayfield Heights, OH, and the Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce in Wickliffe, OH. Brian has won multiple tournaments, incIuding Rome and Mayfield, but he s never won the Cleveland Challenge Cup of Bocce.
Dominic OIivo, 78, is head groundskeeper of the Wickliffe ltalian & American Club, whose outdoor bocce courts are considered some of the finest in North America, if not the worId. WhiIe battling coIon cancer, Dominic continues to work tireIessly on his beloved bocce courts, whiIe passing on his knowIedge and experience to his young apprentice, SaIvatore Continenza. Dominic and his baIl busting aII-volunteer crew arrive at the courts at 6:30am and put in two or three hours of work 3 times a week, every week, aIl 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 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 . Interview with Mario Pagnoni, author of The Joy of Bocce . Mississippi Bocce short . CIub Molisani short |
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