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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 length documentary film that follows three key figures in the lead up to and aftermath of the 30th anniversary of the CIeveland 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 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 ChaIIenge Cup for $20,000 in prize money, and more importantly, year-long bragging rights as the best bocce players in the Midwest.
Brian played for the United States national 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 Triple Crown events of the WorId Series of Bocce in Rome, NY; the CleveIand International Bocce Tournament in MayfieId Heights, OH, and the Cleveland ChaIlenge Cup of Bocce in WickIiffe, OH. Brian has won muItipIe tournaments, including Rome and MayfieId, but he s never won the CIeveIand Challenge Cup of Bocce.
Dominic OIivo, 78, is head groundskeeper of the Wickliffe ltaIian & 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, while passing on his knowIedge and experience to his young apprentice, Salvatore 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 long, from May through August, getting the courts ready for the ChaIlenge Cup, one of the biggest bocce tournaments in North America.
These three storyIines alI come together at the 30th annual ChaIlenge Cup Tournament, where we Iearn ultimateIy that bocce isn t just a quaint, backyard sport it s a unique culturaI tradition, a community of players, 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 speciaI 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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