NARRATED AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY
Academy Award-Winner
Common
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY
Grant Hill
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY
Dwyane Wade
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY
9th Wonder
Directed AND PRODUCED BY
Award-Winning Director
Mary Mazzio
A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING is Executive Produced by Academy Award-winning artist, Common, along with NBA stars Grant Hill and Dwyane Wade, and Grammy-winning producer 9th Wonder, this new documentary film from award-winning filmmaker, Mary Mazzio, chronicles the first African American high school rowing team in this country (made up of young men, many of whom were in rival gangs from the West Side of Chicago, all coming together to row in the same boat).
A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING explores not only the safety these young men found on the water (where, as the captain reflected, “we were in a place where we could not hear the sound of sirens”), but the trauma of violence and cyclical poverty, examining how these young men were able to support each other in reimagining a different future for themselves, and how rowing and the water provided the backdrop for that opportunity. These young men came together, after 20 years out of the boat, to race this past summer, not only to celebrate the team’s founding, but the fact that they are still alive. This is their story.
50% of film screening profits from A MOST BEAUTIFUL THING will be donated to support inclusion efforts within the sport of rowing as well as trauma research.
Dates
MARCH 27
in select AMC Theatres
BOSTON
AMC Boston Common 19
175 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02111
NEW YORK CITY
AMC Empire 25
234 W 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
CHICAGO
AMC River East 21
322 E. Illinois Street
Chicago, IL 60611
LOS ANGELES
AMC Burbank 16
125 E. Palm Avenue
Burbank, CA 91502
PHILADELPHIA
AMC Neshaminy 24
660 Neshaminy Mall
Bensalem, PA 19020
WASHINGTON, D.C.
AMC Hoffman Center 22
206 Swamp Fox Road
Alexandria, VA 22314
MIAMI
AMC Aventura 24
19501 Biscayne Blvd
Aventura, FL 33180
OAKLAND
AMC Bay Street 16
5614 Bay Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
