The Sky is Red Documentary Drops Teaser Trailer

The Sky is Red met its crowdfunding goal last year. The documentary aims to film the untold story of the push for gender, race, and class equity in the growing world of ultimate frisbee from 1968 to the present. The film will help REDirect the focus of what has historically been images of white men playing the sport of ultimate.

Watch a glimpse of The Sky is Red:
The Sky Is Red Documentary Teaser Trailer 2018 from The Sky Is Red Documentary on Vimeo.


Visit the Sky is Red website and consider supporting their efforts.

Spotted: Frisbee Toss in Oscar-Nominated Animated Short

This Disney-Pixar film was Oscar-nominated (2018) in the Animated Short Film category. Blink and you might miss the scene where a schoolgirl tosses a green Frisbee.

Info: When a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for a playground full of kids, only one thing stands in his way – the Lost & fOUnd ("LOU").

The Sky is Red Documentary Seeks Support

Lili Gu (Writer, Director), Brittany Kaplan (Director, Editor), and Julia Johnson (Producer) are collaborating on a feature documentary that will tell the stories of underrepresented and marginalized individuals pushing for gender, race, and class equity in the growing world of ultimate frisbee, from 1968 to the present.

THE SKY IS RED DOC TEASER PART 1: Production begins January 2018 & we need your help to make it happen! Donate here> https://t.co/NmhmmFAHOn pic.twitter.com/ARZamUaqrR

— The Sky Is Red Film (@skyisredfilm) October 24, 2017

Their team is deep into research and pre-production, and have not yet begun production. This kickstarter of $65000 is to help with our first big shoot, where they will travel across the USA from January - April, 2018, speaking to current and past members of the ultimate community who have pushed for equity.


SLUDGE just $upported this worthy flick project, which is seeking funds until November 24.

Support The Sky is Red

Flatball Documentary Planning Sequel

In the final update to contributors to their crowdfunding project, writer and director Dennis "cribber" Warsen teased that a sequel is in the works for 2018.

Cribber briefly hints at the very end of today's update the sequel will cover ultimate history in the 21st century: "look for 'flatball 2000<, a history of ultimate too' shooting begins in 2018"

Flatball, the ultimate frisbee documentary focused around cribber's successful New York New York ultimate team and teammates, is currently available on Netflix as well as available via Amazon.

LA LA AVIATORS

World Premiere of Flatball Scheduled at Carmel International Film Festival

You saw the movie poster.

You've seen the movie trailer.

Now you can see the world premiere of Flatball, the documentary on Ultimate Frisbee is scheduled on Sunday, October 23 at 12:30pm at the the Carmel International Film Festival in California. Buy $10 tickets.

From the press release: Beau Kittredge, star of last summer's undefeated USA Men's Team at the London World Championships, exclaimed, "Finally, a film that explains the birth and quirks of the sport I love. It neatly ties the history to the future with the silky bow that is Alec Baldwin's voice. Even as a six-time world champion I didn't know the giants whose shoulders I stand upon. It's a special treat to have a great player like Dennis Warsen also have skills behind the camera; it allows the story to be told as only an Ultimate player could." And Dante Anderson, former Team Canada player and captain, called FLATBALL a "great flick: heroes, villains, movie stars, love, hate, war and peace, the thrill of victory, and the agony of losing your girlfriend by saying something on national TV."

Flatball listing in CIFF catalog

Alec Baldwin has been busy recently with a role in the animated film, The Boss Baby [Dreamworks] as well as playing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live.

Flatball Documentary Gets a Movie Trailer

Flatball Film published a movie trailer for its history of the sport of ultimate.


Flatball was recently shown at a private screening at the Google headquarters The film was crowdfunded in March 2014 will be narrated by Alec Baldwin. The movie poster was finalized back in fall 2015.

The film is listed in IMDb as being 90 minutes long as sports documentary. The storyline reads: "A feature length documentary exploring the origins and rise of one of the world's fastest growing sports, through the lens of one of the sport's greatest players." That great player is USA Ultimate Hall of Famer Dennis 'Cribber' Warsen.

Frisbee Documentary Nominated at 1978 Oscars

Floating Free [IMDb], a film documenting the 1977 World Frisbee Championships, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action at the 1978 Academy Awards. Watch 2 minutes of stadium ultimate from the late 70's, including some slo-mo shots and an overhand wrist flip.



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Logo Mashup: AUDL Teams + Star Wars

Below is a selection of AUDL team logos fused with an element of Star Wars.

NOTES: American Ultimate Disc League team + Star Wars element
New York Empire + Empire Strikes Back
Montreal Royal + Greedo
Jacksonville Cannons + Tusken Raider
Austin Sol + Millennium Falcon
Dallas Roughnecks + Boba Fett
LA Aviators + Lando Calrissian
Minnesota Wind Chill + TIE/ph phantom (Phantom 38)
Nashville NightWatch + Darth Maul
Raleigh Flyers + X-wing Starfighter
Indy AlleyCats + Yoda

Star Wars Parody for Ultimate

This week's Contested Strip by Megan Praz and Meghan Kemp-Gee pays tribute to the new Stars Wars movie, The Force Awakens.  Megan and Meghan do an out-of-this-world job on The Force Abreakens. See below for a sampling of their creativity.

Obi-Wan Kenobi reminding Luke to use the force when marking the disc.  

Princess Leia Organa with the superfluous layout trying to catch the Frisbee.

Darth Vader wearing so much protective equipment to play ultimate.

[images via Skyd]

Ultrastar: A Force Awakens

Wah-Wah-ing Ultimate Frisbee

Using the Peanuts Movie Wah Wah Machine, you can hear adult-speak of certain words. Such as...

SAY IT!

Or, better yet!

Back to the Future Day

Date: October 21, 2015
Time 4:29 PM

Welcome to the future!


The Frisbie pies tin used as a prop in the BttF Trilogy accurately shows the imprinting on this pie tin, but the prop incorrectly shows a 3-pointed star in the middle. For more in-depth details about the Frisbee/Frisbie cameo, go to Futurepedia.

Flatball Film Releases Movie Poster

"Flatball - A History of Ultimate" which crowdfunded in spring of 2014 took another step by releasing its movie poster. Wasting an opportunistic pun, no flicks are shown on the movie poster.

Yes! You read the correctly - Alec Baldwin is narrating!

Prominently pictured is Pat King (New York, New York) readying to spike the disc as Brent Russell (San Diego/LA Iguanas) sits on the ground.

The Flatball globe insignia appears to be borrowed from the Wham-O 165-gram World Class Frisbee.

Alec Baldwin to Narrate Flatball Film

Flatball: A History of Ultimate recently sent an update about their flick project.

screengrab of email update

ALEC FLAT-BALLDWIN will narrate the documentary about the ultimate sport!

According to IMDb, Alec Baldwin has narration experience before.Watch & listen to a sample of Baldwin's voice work in this Thomas & Friends short.





Or, listen to this remix of "The Many Sounds of Alec Baldwin"...

Documentary: 175 Grams

This documentary about ultimate Frisbee as a positive recreational activity for those living in India's slums was one of the five Short Film Challenge winning films at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The Short Film Challenge was sponsored by the Gates Foundation, which sought documentaries focused around extreme hunger and poverty. All winning shorts in this category won $10,000 in prize money. Amazingly, the footage was filmed over one weekend and had no script.

The film starts with 19 y.o. Gani speaking: "I live in the corner of a slum. Earlier, I never liked the life I was leading. But after I found frisbee, it became a lot better." The rest of the flick shows youth as part of the Fly Wild Ultimate team playing and enjoying beach ultimate, and the sport giving purpose to these youths.

[Screengrab] "Frisbee is all I want. It's my life."

Title: 175 Grams

Length: 8 minutes

By: Bharat Mirle and Aravind Iyer


"175 Grams" | Sundance Short Film Challenge from Sundance Institute on Vimeo.

Oscar-Nominated Frisbee Film

Floating Free (IMDb), a film by Jerry Butts documenting the 1977 World Frisbee Championships, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Film, Live Action at the 1978 Academy Awards. Other nominees included The Absent-Minded Waiter, Notes on the Popular Arts, Spaceborne, and the eventual Oscar winner - I'll Find a Way.

Info: The Floating Free documentary (10:30) captures the various events during the 1977 World Frisbee Championships at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The footage may be grainy, yet it's clear the flying plastic disc - as the central character - is quite versatile. A varied soundtrack follows the quick shots of action from event to event, showcasing Guts, Ultimate (Penn State vs. Santa Barbara), Freestyle, and Frisbee Dogs - all played in front of an enormous, responsive crowd.

Watch the entire documentary: (Ultimate game starts at 3:02, ends at 5:03)

Apple Founder Tossing Discs to Staff

In this 1999 made-for-TV docudrama, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs (played by Noah Wyle) throws colorful flying discs to Apple employees on a California beach.

Watch the trailer below. The disc tossing starts around the 1:15 mark...


Find it on Netflix <-- a great name for a company offering online videos of Ultimate games.

NetFlicks for Ultimate

With the popularity and stock of Ultimate game footage, it's great to be able to see video of Ultimate games. Skyd Magazine recently reported on a portal for Ultimate games called No Huck!  ("NetFlicks" seems like a better name!!)

Having more and more Ultimate games available is the result of the proliferation of camera owners. Many thanks not only to the people holding the camera, and being able to record the inevitable awesome Ultimate play(s). Moreover, a huge appreciation to the video editors! You can now efficiently watch an elite-level Ultimate game in about half the time it's played -- Ironside v. Sockeye (30 minutes; 2012), or Southpaw v. Truck Stop (40 minutes; 2012).

Some suggestions for any/all Ultimate frisbee video portal sites.

Group the games based on their genre (examples: suspense thriller, comedy, melodrama, war film, spaghetti western, etc.), so viewers can choose the type of competition they seek to watch.

Add a category for the video length, so viewers can choose a selection based on the amount of time they have available to watch. (20-30 minutes; 31-40 mins, etc.)

Add a rating system similar to film's 5-star rating or Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer. Ratings will help the viewer understand how good the game is based on criteria (examples: video footage, weather factors, game action, score-keeping, etc.).

Help dictate what the rating system should be called by completing the survey below or here.

Chasing Sarasota in DC

Documentary: Chasing Sarasota

Info: Chasing Sarasota is the story of Portland Rhino's 2011 Ultimate frisbee season: rebuilding, reloading and fighting for redemption. Live the full experience as Portland, Oregon's elite men's Ultimate team competes against the best teams in the world, in the nation's hardest region. Rhino learns that battling the best also means battling yourself. Team depleting injuries, strategic breakdowns, player disqualifications and the demons of last year's collapse jeopardize their ambitions to play on Ultimate's biggest stage: Club Nationals in Sarasota, Florida.

When: Thursday, Sept 13 @ 7pm

Where: Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse*, 2903 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA
*Patrons 21 and older, or those accompanied by a parent, are permitted to enter before 9PM.
Price: $9