Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel is the David-and-Goliath story of Israel’s national baseball team as it competes for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of crushing defeats, in 2017 Israel finally ranks among the world’s best. Its roster includes many Jewish-American major leaguers, most with a tenuous relationship to Judaism, barely any having ever set foot in Israel. Their odyssey takes them from the Holy Land, where they are hailed as modern-day Maccabees, to the tournament in South Korea where they must debunk their reputations as has-beens and wannabes. The connection to Israel that the players forge pushes them to unexpected heights as they represent the country on the world stage.
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
Q&A filmmakers Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer & Jeremy Newberger, with JBFC Moderator Paige Grand Pré
Tickets: $12 (members), $17 (nonmembers)
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Q&A filmmakers Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer, & Jeremy Newberger
Wednesday, Sep. 4 2019, 7:00
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Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer, and Jeremy Newberger are Ironbound Films. Headquartered at an old inn on the Hudson River, Ironbound creates documentaries, such as the award-winning The Anthropologist (DOC NYC Premiere, 2016), Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie (Tribeca Film Festival Premiere, 2013), The New Recruits (Emmy Award nomination, 2011), and The Linguists (Emmy Award nomination, 2010).
Seth was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Historical Programming for Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans (PBS, 2002), Daniel was nominated for The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (PBS, 1997), and Jeremy’s musings on Twitter have been featured in Buzzfeed, New York Observer, Salon, Cosmopolitan, and College Humor.
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