"She hits that ball harder than her momma does." Pull Shot Productions in association with Cascia Films has debuted an official trailer for an indie documentary titled Foosballers, produced, edited and directed by Joe Heslinga. As the title indicates, this film is indeed about the people who compete in the table soccer game known best as foosball. "Most people know foosball as the game they used to play in their parent's basement, but for some die-hard fans, foosball isn't just a game... it's a way of life. Enter the underground world of professional foosball, a sport that's been around for over 40 years but no one knows exists." The doc follows six of the best table soccer players in the world as they prepare for the sport's most prestigious event, The Tornado World Championships. Looks like an amusing, crazy, compelling doc to catch sometime. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Joe Heslinga's documentary Foosballers,...
- 1/12/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sports documentaries are generally allowed to make some assumptions. Talk about baseball, football, basketball, hockey, or soccer can gloss over the structural details and rulebooks because those coming to watch a story about a certain player or team are already fans of the game itself. When you move into a fringe sport in the vein of foosball, however, filmmakers like Joe Heslinga can’t afford that luxury. So he and writer Mike Wagstaffe must find a balance between the personalities of the top players, the history that led to where things are today, and the sport itself. They must dive deep and provide evidence that foosball had million dollar purses in the seventies because I wouldn’t have believed that truth without proof. It wasn’t always a recreational bar game.
Just saying that seems weird these days considering it’s not even that anymore—at least not in my neighborhood.
Just saying that seems weird these days considering it’s not even that anymore—at least not in my neighborhood.
- 10/17/2019
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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