Heading Home
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel | |
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Written by | Daniel A. Miller |
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Edited by | Seth Kramer |
Music by | Peter Rundquist Niv Toar |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Countries | United States Israel Japan South Korea |
Language | English |
Box office | $207,533[1] |
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel is a 2018 documentary film about the underdog Israel national baseball team competing for the first time in the World Baseball Classic.[2] The 87-minute film was directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, and Jeremy Newberger, the three of whom produced it along with Jonathan Mayo, and starred baseball player Ike Davis and other baseball players.
Plot
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The documentary follows the team winning the qualifier, practicing before hundreds of local baseball players in Israel, seeing Israeli sites such as the
The odds against Israel were 200-1, and it was ranked 41st in the world - while the other teams were primarily the top 15 ranked teams in the world.
Cast
- Ike Davis as himself[10]
- Cody Decker as himself[7]
- Sam Fuld as himself[7]
- Ty Kelly as himself[4]
- Ryan Lavarnway as himself[7]
- Jerry Weinstein as himself[10]
- Josh Zeid as himself[10]
Production
The movie was the idea of
Mayo and three friends of his from Jewish summer camp (Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake) -- Daniel Miller, Jeremy Newberger, and Seth Kramer, of Ironbound Films—were the producers.[7][11] The producers raised $73,000 through Kickstarter.[8][12]
Release
Heading Home was first released in the United States on August 5, 2018.[13]
Critical response
The
Accolades
Heading Home won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2018 Gold Coast International Film Festival, the Audience Award for Documentary at the 2018 Washington Jewish Film Festival, the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2018 Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival, the Best Documentary Film Award at the 2018 Boca Raton Jewish Film Festival, and the Best Documentary Award at the 2018 Jewish Arts and Film Festival of Fairfield County.[14][15][7][16]
See also
References
- ^ "Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (2018)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved September 22, 2019.
- ^ "Team Israel's baseball journey a stirring story of sports, patriotism". The Jerusalem Post. May 18, 2018.
- ^ a b c Jeff Passan (April 20, 2018). "'Home' boys: How the WBC inspired a movie that tells a moving story about baseball and life". Yahoo.
- ^ a b c d e f Jonathan Mark (May 23, 2018). "Heading Home: Team Israel's Magic Carpet Ride". The New York Jewish Week.
- ^ a b c Sergio Carmona (March 22, 2018). "Team Israel's inspiring World Baseball Classic run documented". SunSentinel.
- ^ Tom Keegan (December 11, 2018). "Underdog film on Team Israel about far more than baseball," The Boston Herald.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Documentary on Israeli National Team's World Baseball Classic Run Heads to Israel". Haaretz. April 15, 2018.
- ^ a b Lauren Comitor (March 8, 2018). "There were miracles aplenty for Team Israel in 'Heading Home' documentary". The Athletic.
- ^ Jim Swift (March 22, 2018). "Baseball Birthright". The Weekly Standard.
- ^ a b c d Michael Jacobs (January 11, 2018). "AJFF Review: 'Heading Home' Touches All the Bases". Atlanta Jewish Times.
- ^ Jonathan Mayo (February 1, 2017). "Cementing Israel’s ties to America’s pastime," The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle.
- ^ "Heading Home, A Documentary Film by Ironbound Films, Inc.," Kickstarter.
- ^ "Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel (2018)" IMDb.
- ^ Karen Rubin (November 15, 2018). "Gold Coast International Film Festival Announces 2018 Winners".
- ^ "Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel". IMDB.
- ^ "Heading Home". Menemsha Films.