sports
Stickball & Memories Of The Street
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Sharon Barr
With only a broom handle, a rubber ball, a bunch of guys, and a street, you can engage in a full scale, bona fide, serious, respectable game similar in feel to classic baseball. And talk about a field. Who can beat manhole covers for bases, cars and walls for foul lines, roofs for bleachers?
Sharon Barr enrolled in a Scribe non-linear editing workshop in 1997 to learn how to assemble home videos for her parents’ upcoming wedding anniversary. The footage that she brought to class of an annual Brooklyn stick ball in upstate New York developed into Stickballs and Memories of the Street, a short documentary on the history of street games as an aspect of class and culture. Sharon, an attorney with an expertise in real estate, planning and development, provided pro bono services to Scribe in 1998 and joined the board in 1999. As a civic and cultural leader, Barr has served on the Boards of the Painted Bride Art Center (President), NetworkArts Philadelphia (Chair), Scribe Video Center, Mt Airy USA - A Community Development Corporation, the Fairmount Park Advisory Council, the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and as Co-Chair of the Building Committee for Mishkan Shalom Synagogue.
June 13, 2002 - Screen Picks, Philadelphia City Paper
July 3, 2002 - arts and entertainment mention by Michael Elkin, The Jewish Exponent
June 13, 14 & 15, 2002 - Scribe Weekend at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
Goal Ball : A Sport For Good Listeners
Posted July 18th, 2007 by GretjenA video documentary by David Block
Sometimes there's more than one way to keep your eye on the ball. Goal ball is a professional sport played by the blind and visually impaired. Now played professionally in 35 countries, it was developed after World War II as a way of rehabilitating German soldiers who lost their vision in combat.
David Block is a legally blind journalist and the producer/director of three documentaries on disabled athletes including Portraits of Possibility (1996), and Brian's Run (2002). His works have been broadcast on two Philadelphia public television stations, WHYY TV12 and WYBE TV35 and theyíve received funding from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association, and the Karden Foundation. He can be reached via his Web site, www.BlindFilmmaker.com
May 14, 1992 - "A Festival of Works By Area Video, Film Artists" by Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer
May 14, 1992 - Film About Team Sport For Blind To Be Shown" by Bill Murphy, The Main Line Times
