BALLPLAYER: PELOTERO

Project
  • Branded
  • Documentary
  • Scripted
Role
  • Cinematographer
  • Director
  • Photographer
  • Producer
THE STORY

Two Dominican baseball players face challenges as they try to make it to the Major Leagues.

The film follows the story of two top shortstops, Miguel Angel Sano and Jean Carlos Batista, who are about to turn 16 years of age. This is the magic number for Dominican prospects, the age MLB allows them to sign, the age they command the biggest bonuses and can possibly move up to the majors.

The unequal power relationship between MLB and these young, black men living in destitute poverty highlighted in the film puts into relief the long-standing, unequal economic and political relationships of power between the United States and the Dominican Republic, or any other country in the Caribbean, for that matter.

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