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WHERE OUR CHILDREN PLAY: THE CHALLENGE OF YOUTH SPORTS

By Joel FRANCO

CHESAPEAKE FILMS - as PROD

Sport - Production 2021

To transform the youth sports culture by bringing the focus back to the kids.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Sport, True Story, Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Director(s)
- Joel FRANCO
- Cast
- John SMOLTZ, Tom GLAVINE, Anson DORRANCE, Carolina MORACE, Tom BYER, Reed MALTBIE, Tommy JOHN JR, Erica SUTER, Tony MORENO
- Producer(s)
- Joel FRANCO (CHESAPEAKE FILMS), Don ZIRPOLA
- Synopsis
- When it's no longer just about fun, young athletes' self-esteems can often become irreversibly damaged. We intend to shed new perspective and reveal more transparency to ensure that all those involved in youth sports can join hands and work as one to return sports to the children, so they can reap the many benefits we know can help them evolve into healthy adults, physically, emotionally, and mentally. We will reveal in detail, how, all too often, kids are disregarded completely if they are not tall enough, fast enough, or strong enough. How many kids are we leaving behind because we forget we are supposed to help all children at every level with both physical and mental fitness, not simply promote certain few. We would love to discuss the importance of a coach as teacher, an educator and how important and influential they can be in the career and life of an athlete. Our mission is to provide an informed awareness of what's behind this 20-billion-dollar industry (and counting). More importantly, under the guidance of smart and passionate people with a shared vision, an openness to change, and with a strong spirit of collaboration we can create a new culture of sports innovation -- that starts with knowing who we are doing this for. The film will spotlight progress and solutions, not problems. One player/family at the time. One team. One club. From the bottom up.