Events
2012 Film Festival
Girls & Women in Sport and Physical Activity
The Tucker Center
held its second
annual Film Festival on on January 30, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium
in the DQ Club Room. The event, presented by the University of Minnesota
Athletic Department, kicked off the 26th annual celebration of National
Girls and Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) and featured
Salaam Dunk. The festival also showed the
locally-produced short film,
Grappling Girls.
About Salaam Dunk
Basketball is much more than a game in David Fine’s stirring documentary
about an
Iraqi women’s basketball team at the American University of Iraq –
Sulaimani (AUIS) in Kurdistan. For the young women on the team, most of
whom have never touched a basketball or been allowed to play any sport,
it is a blissful release from the realities of a war-torn nation.
[WATCH THE TRAILER]
About Grappling Girls
2004 saw the initial appearance of women’s wrestling in the Olympics.
for the first time, girls and women around the country experienced
international validation of their still controversial presence in the
sport. As such, Grappling Girls is a documentary-in-progress
about women’s competitive wrestling--an emerging sport in the US.
About the Film Festival
The Tucker Center Film Festival is one of more than
1,000 events taking place across the country for National Girls and
Women in Sport Day. Congress has proclaimed this national day each year
since 1987. It recognizes the progress of girls and women in sports and
the benefits that sports and fitness activities can bring to the lives
of all girls and women. The Day is organized nationally by the Girl
Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, National Association for Girls
and Women in Sport, the National Women's Law Center and the Women's
Sport Foundation.