Screening Block I

1:00-3:00

Blue Line & Ready to Play

Blue Line (35min)

Director: Gemal Woods

  Meet Christon Bacon, aka Christylez.  He’s a musician, visual artist, an emcee, and a community

  activist.  This visual journal peeks in to the life of this young D.C. ‘renaissance man’ as

  he rides the Metro to spread his art and his hope for his city. 

Ready to Play (61 min)

    Director: Jennifer Crescenzo

    Over the last fifteen years Coach “Crash” Crescenzo has taken a passion for baseball and built a   

    neighborhood institution, the D.C. Glover Park Co-Ed Softball League.  As administrations come    

    and go the softball league keeps bringing neighbors out to play ball and keeps a changing    

    community connected. 

Screening Block II

3:30-5:40

The Tivoli & God of a Second Chance

The Tivoli: A Neighborhood Landmark Reborn (20min)-

OCFF BEST MID LENGTH  DOC

    Director: Walter Gottlieb

    The story of one of America’s most elaborate movie houses is unraveled as the

Columbia Heights theater’s eighty year history is told by famous

Washingtonians such as Diane Rehm of NPR.

G-d of a Second Chance (82min)-

OCFF BEST FEATURE LENGTH DOC WINNER

  Director: Paul Wagner

  This documentary explores the role of faith in the lives of two Black

men dealing with the toughest  challenges of life in D.C.’s poorest neighborhood. 

Two men, one recovering drug addict, and  another “at risk” youth, 

reach out to their community for guidance in improving their lives. 

 Screening Block III

6:15-7:30

Chocolate City

Chocolate City (47min)

Director: Ellie Walton and Sam Wild

 Washington is home to America’s proportionally largest black population.  This film documents the  

 struggle of the Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg public housing community as they face demolition as    

 part of the Hope 6 regeneration program of the Waterfront.