Bragging Rights
Feature/60m/English/NYC/2007
DIRECTOR: Sonia Gonzalez
PRODUCED BY: Sonia Gonzalez, Beni Matias, Faith Radle
SYNOPSIS: To the uninitiated, stickball is merely inner city baseball, played with broomstick bats and manhole covers for bases. To its players and fans, however, stickball is so much more than that. A uniquely New York institution that has now spread to cities across America, stickball has been around for one hundred years and continues to bring together different communities, mend racial tensions and foster life-long friendships and neighborhood leadership. From its humble beginnings to this very day, stickball has been more than a game. It’s a way for new immigrants to become American.
BRAGGING RIGHTS is Sonia’s first feature-length documentary. BRAGGING RIGHTS chronicles the history of the New York City game of stickball and its players. Through the player’s joys, loss, struggle, and determination, we follow how they preserve their beloved tradition. BRAGGING RIGHTS aired on the PBS show Cantos Latinos in September 2006. Sonia brings to her directing over 10 years experience in editing. She has worked for such esteemed directors as Spike Lee, Milos Forman, Alan J. Pakula, Ted Demme and Robert Redford. As an editor, Sonia has cut numerous shorts, three independent features and a documentary for PBS. In 2000, Sonia co-wrote, directed and edited the short comedy, DEBUTANTE. Sonia is also a field producer on the F/X show RESCUE ME, where she creates mini-documentaries for the show’s DVD.
Sonia has been an activist around such issues as police brutality, media activism and racial justice. She is a co-founder and Board member of Chica Luna Productions, whose mission is to identify, develop and support women of color in entertainment media who strive to use popular media that engage social justice themes and is accountable to their communities. Chica Luna is based in East Harlem.
Sonia Gonzalez
646-541-7183
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