The Impossible Swim: A Canadian Documentary
by Murchadha HouseTuesday, 25 August 2020 from 1:29 PM (EDT) to Sunday, 4 October 2020 6:00 PM (EDT)
Ticket Information
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Overview
On Sunday October 4th, 2020 at 4pm, join us on-line to view The Impossible Swim by award-winning Canadian director Larry Weinstein and Ali Weinstein. This film is a production of Bell Media and TSN in association with Circle Blue Entertainment. The father-daughter directing team's documentary features the long-distance swimming accomplishments of Marilyn Bell, Maya Farrell and Vicki Keith. After viewing the film spend some time with the directors in an on-line Q&A after the film.
4:00pm Virtual viewing of The Impossible Swim begins
4:50pm Join the link for an on-line Q&A with the directors
Links to both aspects of the event will be sent via email (the one you use when purchasing the tickets) by October 2, 2020.
Details
In February of 2019, Pat Mullen wrote:
16-year-old Maya Farrell hopes to follow in the footsteps of the legendary swimmers Marilyn Bell and Vicki Keith. Like them, she wants to glide through the waters of Lake Ontario. Farrell hopes to bring their achievement to a next generation by matching their monumental marathon swims across Lake Ontario. The task would be an ambitious endeavour, even if the creatures were born with gills and fins. She aims to cross an 88 km path in the Great Lake, which can takes a seasoned and well-trained swimmer upwards of a day sailing through the cold waters. As chronicled in The Impossible Swim, however, Farrell’s ambitious challenge makes her a hero: the doc shows the remarkable courage and dedication one requires to set such an ambitious goal and to strive to achieve it.
Read the entire article at http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/review-the-impossible-swim
Attendees
- Karen Tompkins
- Lisa Howe
- Anonymous
- Anonymous + 1 guest
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Giselle St Pierre
- Anonymous
- Lori Tonial
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Darrin Murphy