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Pond Hockey
Read about this film in Cyn Collins’s Daily Planet review, “21 films in 11 days.”
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Director: Tommy Haines
Pond Hockey examines the changing culture of sports through insightful interviews with hockey stars, experts, journalists and local rink rats who are all searching the open ice for the true meaning of sport.
FROM THE DIRECTOR: The pond. This is where hockey was born—under the open sky—where the ice is gritty and so is the play.
For generations, Minnesotans have grown up on outdoor ice. But, there are new climate-controlled arenas in every town, and that's where the kids go to practice year-round now. In Pond Hockey, director Tommy Haines and his Minnesota crew chronicle the changing culture of hockey, interwoven with the story of the first ever U.S. Pond Hockey Championships, a tournament created to recapture the purity and youthful spirit native to the pond.
Through interviews with local rink rats, sports journalists and hockey stars like Wayne Gretzky, Neal Broten, Marion Gaborik, Mark Parrish and Phil Housley, Pond Hockey searches the open ice for the true meaning of sport.
Director Tommy Haines grew up on Minnesota's Iron Range where he discovered his passion for hockey. As a founding partner of Northland Films, he has been creating movies since 2001. Prior to Pond Hockey, he co-wrote Generation Mason, winner of Best American Film at the Harlem International Film Festival.
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USA • 2008 • 82 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: TOMMY HAINES
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Pond Hockey
I walked out of Pond Hockey two thirds of the way through when the filmmakers featured a man who had both a son and a daughter but only the son’s room was a hockey shrine. He thought it was funny that his son only called his daughter “Goalie” instead of her name.
I hated the fact that this film portrayed hockey as a male-only sport. One of the reasons I go to MSPIFF is to see the world’s view of women, which is mostly far more liberated than how Americans do. And this fact was evidenced by Pond Hockey.
Don’t go see this film if you care at all about women’s sports.
Not the whole picture
You did notice that the son is only 2 years old right? And the daughter was less than a year old? And that the “man” you refer to fondly recalls the hours he spent skating with his sister on their backyard pond?
You should’ve stayed to the end and you would have heard this issue addressed in the Q&A. If you can’t sit still for the whole 90 minutes you won’t get the whole picture.
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