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  • Watch Online / Watching the Wheels (2010)



    Desc: Watching the Wheels: Directed by Augusto Castillo. During the 2010 ESCAC Master in Documentary film and Society :: Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya. The project entitled 'Watching the Wheels' authored by Augusto Castillo B (master's student). was selected to be shot film as a final Master project. The investigation and filming of the same was carried out from February to June 2010, in Sant Feliu de Llobregat, province of Barcelona, Spain. The film documents the end of the season for the wheelchair Basketball F.C Barcelona club. For the 2009-2010 season of the Spanish wheelchair Basketball league, the UNES San Feliu club, which competed in the first division, merged with FC Barcelona club. Is a new beginning for this amateur players, the big chance of their lives, playing whit such a big and recognized club. Now the end of the season is coming, and the team is playing terrible, no wins, and the decline is much more probable than stay in the first division of the Spanish Wheel chair Basketball league. With only 4 games to the end of the championship they face relegation, they are forced to win at least 3 of them. Within the group the pressures of competition is to strong, they are not used to deal with professional sport problems, all their lives they been playing as amateurs, that's why this has been the biggest challenge in their sports lives. Now in the final of the championship they are experienced the struggle between generations, the oldest players resist to change while the new generations are focus to achieve the team goal. However, they share the same dream and work to make it come true, and during this film we can see how they became a team and a solid group of friends, travelling around the country playing and doing what they enjoy the most, is what make them achieve the most important thing in their sports lives. Only the work that the team carries out will mark the outcome of this story; Division A or descent, rupture and abandonment or the continuation of a project.