IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST

Location: Viridian – Library + Event Center
8030 S 1825 W, West Jordan
Date: Thursday, November 12, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: FREE

*Post-film Q&A with with Co-director Tony Vainuku.

Despite a small population with a brief history in the United States, Samoans and Tongans are 28 times more likely than any other minority group to play football for the NFL. Filmed over four years, filmmakers Tony Vainuku and Erika Cohn track the journeys of four talented Polynesian high school football players as they strive toward their lifelong, and potentially life-changing, goal of professional recruitment.

Charismatic, passionate, and determined, the players’ love of family is matched only by their love of American football. Their speedy transformation from adolescence to adulthood in the high-stakes world of collegiate football is filmed with incredible access, shining a light on the extreme pressures to succeed that emanate from within the tightly knit Polynesian community, as well as from the outside.

Yet, gang violence, addiction, and poverty are a constant danger that can easily bring down a dream. Even with the best moms, siblings, and friends cheering from the grandstands, not everyone makes it to the big time.

– Description courtesy of Sundance Institute

Official Selection: 2015 Sundance Film Festival