A Most Beautiful Thing (2020)

Directed by

Mary Mazzio

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows a rowing team made up of Chicago teenagers from rival gangs. It shows how they come together through the sport and face their pasts.

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What happens

A Most Beautiful Thing is a 2020 documentary film chronicling the history of the first US African American public high school rowing team, composed of young men from the West Side of Chicago, many of whom were in rival gangs. The film is narrated by Common, directed by filmmaker and Olympic rower Mary Mazzio, and produced by NBA athletes Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade along with 9th Wonder who also did the hip-hop score for the film. Fifty percent of the film's profits will be donated to support inclusion efforts within the sport of rowing as well as trauma research and social justice initiatives with the NAACP. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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