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The Workers CupInside The Labor Camps of Qatar
A Tournament For Workers |
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*2019 Emmy Nominee*
Selected Press for The Workers Cup
"A riveting underdog tale"
- Screen Daily
- Screen Daily
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"An intimate portrait"
-The Washington Post "Delivers impressive dignity"
-The Guardian |
"Remarkable Inside Access"
- Variety "gently forces us to consider
what it literally means to be free". -The Playlist |
"Compared to the activism of players like Colin Kaepernick or the resilience of the Philadelphia Eagles, the men in Sobel’s film don’t even have a voice to be silenced.
You’ll be grateful that Sobel’s efforts try to change that."
-Roger Ebert.com
"The documentary England must watch ahead of the Qatar World Cup"
- The Independent
- The Independent
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The Workers Cup
Directed by Adam Sobel
Run Time: 92 min. UPC: 602573752500 Synopsis: The Workers Cup is set inside the labor camps of Qatar, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of 1.6 million migrant workers.
The film follows a team of laborers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup; by night they compete in a “workers welfare” football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. We join one team of men from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is their love for football. Each match offers them a momentary escape from the homesickness and isolation they endure as the lowest class in the world’s richest country. Now Available on DVD and VOD
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Director's Statement
The Workers Cup is a portrait of our increasingly globalized world. Yet sport is universal, in all of its agony and ecstasy.
The World Cup is being built on the backs of our protagonists – still they can’t help but love the game. This paradox holds the film in balance for me, and I believe it reveals some greater truth about how we find meaning in life.
- Adam Sobel
The Workers Cup is a portrait of our increasingly globalized world. Yet sport is universal, in all of its agony and ecstasy.
The World Cup is being built on the backs of our protagonists – still they can’t help but love the game. This paradox holds the film in balance for me, and I believe it reveals some greater truth about how we find meaning in life.
- Adam Sobel
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Josh Levin
Passion River Films
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josh@passionriver.com
Josh Levin
Passion River Films
732-321-0711 ex 180
josh@passionriver.com
