A rampant, street level story of mentorship and everyday heroism in tough circumstances. An inner city coach's son, estranged in his youth from his father, spends five years on ball fields in inner city Oakland and Havana, following the lives of two extraordinary youth baseball coaches, Roscoe in Oakland and Nicolas in Havana. The coaches meet on videotape and two years of red tape later, Coach Roscoe and nine Oakland players travel to Havana to play Coach Nicolas' team. For one week, the players and coaches eat, dance, swim, argue and play baseball together. But when the parent of an Oakland player is murdered back home, it brings back the inescapable reality and challenges of life in an American inner city.
Crew
Eugene Corr
Director, Writer, Producer
Roberto Chile
Director, Director of Photography, Co-Producer
Matthew Baldwin
Editor
Gary Weimberg
Editor, Co-Producer
Melissa Elbirt
Assistant Editor
Steve Bloom
Additional Editing
Jennifer Chinlund
Additional Editing
Chris Faber
Additional Editing
Emiko Omori
Director of Photography
Monica Lam
Director of Photography
Steve Burns
Director of Photography
Ashley James
Director of Photography
Robert Deutsch
Executive Producer
Ruth Shapiro
Executive Producer
Matthew Chandler
Associate Producer
Liza Corr
Associate Producer
Max Stein
Associate Producer
Jason Boyce
Additional Camera
Will Monts
Additional Camera
Tamsin Orion
Additional Camera
John Nutt
Post Production Supervisor
Philip Perkins
Sound Designer, Sound Editor, Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Daniel Chile
Production Sound Mixer
Salvador Combarro
Production Sound Mixer
Juan Matos
Production Sound Mixer
Daniel Ben-Horin
Finance
Catherine Murphy
Production Manager
Thea Ruoho
Additional Editorial Assistant
Camille Thomasson
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