Age of Champions is the award-winning documentary following five competitors who sprint, leap, and swim for gold at the National Senior Olympics. You ll meet a 100-year-old tennis champion, an 86-year-old pole-vaulter and a group of rough-and-tumble basketball grandmothers (65+) as they triumph over the limitations of age. When one athlete loses a spouse and another is diagnosed with cancer, they dig even deeper to make their Olympic dreams come true. It is a story about the resilience of the human spirit and a must-see for the whole family.
When technophile Sarah Sparks becomes pregnant, her uncertainties about motherhood trigger an impulsive road trip to the source of her anxiety: her long-estranged mother, living far away and off-the-grid. Roger Ebert calls Small, Beautifully Moving Parts effortlessly engaging a small film [that] knows exactly how to be a small film.
Joe Papp in Five Acts, a feature-length documentary film, tells the story of New York s indomitable, street-wise champion of the arts who introduced interracial casting to the American stage and created free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair, and A Chorus Line. Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. In his eyes, art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. We have public libraries, he would argue, Why not public theaters? At the same time, his personal story is riveting: a very poor boy that fell in love with Shakespeare and hid his immigrant roots for over 20 years. His great accomplishments and his tumultuous personal history is told by a Who's Who of stage and screen--Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Hare, Ntozake Shange, and Larry Kramer, among others.
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