Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (2017)
(Director: Daniel Miller, Jeremy Newberger, Seth Kramer | Documentary | Israel, Japan, South Korea, USA 2017 | 86 min. | English)
RJFF. A stirring story of sports, patriotism and personal growth, HEADING HOME charts the underdog journey of Israel’s national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. After years of defeat, Team Israel finally ranked among the world’s best in 2017 making it eligible to play in the prestigious international tournament.
The roster includes Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Ryan Lavarnway, Josh Zeid and other Jewish Americans from Major League Baseball teams. Most of the Team Israel players have a tenuous relationship to Judaism and have not traveled to Israel before. Their odyssey takes them from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, where they are greeted as heroes, to Seoul, where the team discovers the pride of representing Israel on the world stage.
POST-FILM Q&A with Director Daniel Miller.
Community Partners: Rochester Red Wings (POST-FILM BASEBALL TREATS) and Camp Seneca Lake (Friends of CSL! HEADING HOME will be shown to campers at CSL while we watch the film at the Dryden Theatre. So, gather your camp friends and join us for Closing Night!)
Generously underwritten by The Miller Family: Carolyn Miller, Michael, Deanna and Sophie Miller and Andrea Miller and Dennis Kessler and Susan and Saul Marsh.
Presented in loving memory of Marvin Miller, the greatest baseball fan.