2012 Tucker Center Film Festival
The
Tucker Center and the University of Minnesota Athletic Department are
pleased to announce that
Salaam Dunk will be the feature
presentation of the 2012 film festival. The festival will also be
showing the locally-produced short film,
Grappling Girls.
The festival will take place on January 30, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium in the DQ Club Room. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with the films beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are available online at tcff2012.eventbrite.com. Discounted rates are available to students and to groups of 15 or more.
About Salaam Dunk
Basketball is much more than a game in David Fine’s stirring documentary
about an
Iraqi women’s basketball team at the American University of Iraq –
Sulaimani (AUIS) in Kurdistan. For the young women on the team, most of
whom have never touched a basketball or been allowed to play any sport,
it is a blissful release from the realities of a war-torn nation.
[WATCH THE TRAILER]
About Grappling Girls
2004 saw the initial appearance of women’s wrestling in the Olympics.
for the first time, girls and women around the country experienced
international validation of their still controversial presence in the
sport. As such, Grappling Girls is a documentary-in-progress
about women’s competitive wrestling--an emerging sport in the US.
About the Film Festival
The Tucker Center Film Festival is one of more than
1,000 events taking place across the country for National Girls and
Women in Sport Day. Congress has proclaimed this national day each year
since 1987. It recognizes the progress of girls and women in sports and
the benefits that sports and fitness activities can bring to the lives
of all girls and women. The Day is organized nationally by the Girl
Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, National Association for Girls
and Women in Sport, the National Women's Law Center and the Women's
Sport Foundation.
Contact the festival committee if you have questions or would like more information about this exciting event.