After last year’s moving and award-winning documentary How Far Is Heaven, the talented filmmaking team of Chris Pryor and Miriam Smith once again uproot their lives, leave loved ones behind and move into a small community for their next project, the grassroots rugby documentary The Ground We Won.
This new doco will follow the highs and lows of a local rugby team, consisting of farmers aged 16-42, and looks to explore what rural life and the “love of the game” means to these men, and also for contemporary New Zealand society.
Filming began last week with the first pre-season friendly – and in a big coup, All Black legend Colin Meads has been snagged as the film’s narrator. The Ground We Won is set for release in 2014.
While the film is being made with the support of the Arts Foundation and in association with the New Zealand Film Commission, Pryor and Smith are seeking public support for post-production – through the Arts Foundation’s new crowd-sourcing platform Boosted. If you’d like to see the film in cinemas – and who wouldn’t – check out their Boosted video below and click on the donate link to get in behind this project.
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Boosted:
http://vimeo.com/60980391
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The Ground We Won:
