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Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival “Give Me The Ball!,” an upcoming ESPN film, will open the Doc10 film festival’s showcase of documentary cinema on April 30. Screening at the Davis Theater, “Give Me The Ball!” tells the true story of American tennis player Billie Jean King through interviews with King, who delves into her “competitive drive on the court as well as her private struggles with her sexual identity.” The festival’s 11th edition will close on May 3 with “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie,” which chronicles the 2022 violent assault against world-renowned author Salman Rushdie. A Q&A with Rushdie, director Alex Gibney and poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths will follow the screening. Doc10’s slate also includes the latest projects from other acclaimed documentary-makers, including two-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Maite Alberdi (“The Mole Agent”) with her film “A Child of My Own,” about a woman desperate to be a mother, who faked her own pregnancy, and Ross McElwee’s “Remake,” which focuses on the juxtaposition of the death of his son and an awkward Hollywood development deal. Other highlights include “Soul Patrol,” about the first elite unit of Black special ops fighters in the Vietnam War; “Everybody to Kenmure Street,” which follows a 2021 immigration raid in Glasgow and the community’s rallying response to stop their neighbors’ deportation; and “The Baddest Speechwriter of All,” about Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted lawyer and speechwriter, directed by Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry. “If I had to come up with a theme for this year’s selection, it would be perseverance,” said Doc10 Senior Programmer Anthony Kaufman. “Many of our films follow people who are fiercely determined, whether Billie Jean King, Salman Rushdie, or Amy Goodman; a father relentlessly searching for his missing son; a would-be mother who desperately wants a child; American doctors bravely trying to provide medical care in Gaza; or even Girl Scouts tenaciously selling cookies. Perhaps these are exactly the kind of stories we need right now.”
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