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Film Festival Day: ‘Life in Synchro’
May 23, 2020 @ 5:00 pm
$10
Purchase a ticket. Watch at home. Support BWiFF!
Feature Presentation: 3:00PM PT / 6:00PM ET (or anytime beginning May 22-31)
Q&A: 4:00PM PT / 7:00PM ET
On May 23, film festival audiences from across North America will join together for a virtual screening of the documentary Life in Synchro and filmmaker Q&A. When you purchase tickets using the link above, proceeds will be split between BWiFF and the filmmakers. Film Festival Day is an initiative of the Film Festival Alliance, a collaborative community of mission-driven film festivals that Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival is proud to be a member, and Theatrical-At-Home.
About the Film: If a single figure skater is a marvel, a team of figure skaters is practically a miracle. Welcome to the beautiful, cold, hard world of synchronized ice skating – the toughest sport you’ve never heard of. Synchro has been empowering generations of women since 1956 when it was founded by a father who saw the need for team sports for girls. Today these skaters lift, leap, and spin together in ways the rink has never seen before, but this innovative sport is still somehow overlooked by mainstream media.
Journey alongside incredible women around the country as they push their teams and themselves beyond the routine and up towards greatness. The starts of today, the newcomers, the passionate amateurs and the founders of the sport all have something to prove. They’re chasing Olympic dreams not just for themselves, but for their beloved sport. Together these skaters are out to prove the staying power of synchro.
Join Director Angela Panaglia, and subjects Emily Fitzgerald (former competitive skater on the Dearborn Crystallettes), Heidi Coffin (68-year-old adult skater, Maine DownEasters) and Peggy MacDonald (a skater on the first ever synchro team in 1956) for a Q&A, moderated by Susan Sullivan, Founder/Director of the Women’s Sports Film Festival.