Debate Team (2008)
America loves a winner and will not tolerate a loser
90 min
Debate Team is a documentary exploring the weird subculture of competitive college debate. Competitors battle at 360 words per minute, hauling around mountains of evidence called "cards" and nearly every debate ends in global nuclear annihilation. In 2005, some 200 teams converged on San Francisco State to compete in the National Championship. The documentary follows four teams, from Michigan State, Harvard, West Georgia, and Berkeley in their quest for the national title. What emerges is not simply the chronicle of the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, but a more disturbing examination into the nature of competition itself and the American fetish with championships and champions.
- Data de estreia
- 19 de outubro de 2008
- País de origem
- Ainda indisponível
Elenco
- Aaron Hardy como Self
- Michael Klinger como Self
- Joe Koehle como Self
- Calum Matheson como Self
- Michael Miller como Self
- Morgan Miller como Self
- Stacey Nathan como Self
- William Repko como Self
- Erin I. Robbins como The Big Board Girl
- Greta Stahl como Self
Equipe
- B. Douglas Robbins · Diretor(a)
- B. Douglas Robbins · Produtor(a)
- Joseph W. Walling · Produtor(a)
- Ian M. Gray · Compositor(a)
- Josh Seidenfeld · Compositor(a)
- Joseph W. Walling · Diretor(a) de fotografia
- B. Douglas Robbins · Editor(a)