ESPN’s upcoming film “Give Me The Ball!” will open the Doc10 Film Festival’s documentary film showcase on April 30th.
Give Me The Ball! Screening at Davis Theater The film tells the true story of American tennis player Billie Jean King through interviews with King, exploring her “competitiveness on the court and her personal struggles with her sexual identity.”
The 11th edition of the festival will close on May 3 with Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, which chronicles the 2022 violence against world-famous author Salman Rushdie. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Rushdie, director Alex Gibney, and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Doc10’s slate includes the latest projects from other acclaimed documentarians, including two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi (The Mall Agent)’s A Child of My Own, about a woman who fakes her own pregnancy in a desperate bid to become a mother, and Ross McElwee’s Remake, which focuses on the parallels between the death of her son and a messy Hollywood development deal.
Other highlights include “Soul Patrol,” about the first elite black Special Forces unit in the Vietnam War; ‘Together with Kenmur Street’ follows the immigration raids in Glasgow in 2021 and the community’s collective response to stop the deportation of their neighbors. and “The Baddest Speechwriter of All,” directed by Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry, about Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted lawyer and speechwriter.
“If I had to come up with a selection theme for this year, it would be perseverance,” says Anthony Kaufman, Doc10 senior programmer. “Many of our films follow people with fierce determination, such as Billie Jean King, Salman Rushdie, and Amy Goodman. A father relentlessly searches for his missing son, a would-be mother desperately wants a child, an American doctor bravely trying to provide medical care in Gaza, and even a persistent cookie-selling Girl Scout. Perhaps these are just the kinds of people.”
The stories we need right now. ”
For more information, please visit doc10.com.
