Ted's Take

As many of you know, a group of us helped produce a wonderful film called “Kicking It“. The film pivots around a charity soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup. This charity is a terrific enterprise and believes that a “ball can change one’s life” and that teamwork and being part of a competitive environment can enhance and upgrade one’s standing in life.

The film has been very successful. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It then went on to the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC in May and will come to Washington, DC, at the SILVERDOCS Film Festival in June. The film will open in theaters in LA, NYC and DC in June as well. Please see this website for specific info on times and theaters as well. ESPN is a partner in the film and will be broadcasting the film on its networks, too, this fall and Netflix will stream the film as well.

This year’s Homeless World Cup will be played in Melbourne, Australia in December. See website for more information. The US Trials for picking a team to send to Australia will be held in DC in late June. Come back soon to this blog for specific information on locations, times and how you can help.

We wanted to bring the US Trials of the Homeless World Cup to DC to help promote the causes related to stopping homelessness and to introduce this charity to the people of our nations’ capital.

The weekend for the event will be June 27th to the 29th. This coincides with the opening of the film in Washington, DC, and is also scheduled around the DC United vs. LA Galaxy game at RFK Stadium.

We will provide lots of information around this event and how you can help soon but please hold these dates in your schedule and plan to come on out and help us support this most worthy cause.