Film Series:

2016, Rebecca Carpenter, USA, 89 min.

Chicago premiere! Filmmakers and special guests in person!

The Friday, November 10 screening is now SOLD OUT!

As the controversy over sports concussions heats up, director Carpenter, daughter of former NFL running back Lew Carpenter, delves into football’s shocking history of players whose lives were cut short as a result of blunt force head trauma. After Lew’s death, his family was forced to come to grips with the diagnosis of the degenerative cognitive disease CTE, reworking their memories of his depression, forgetfulness, and inexplicable rages as caused by a disease he didn’t know he had. Interviews with experts including Dr. Bennet Omalu and Dr. Julian Bailes, and with players including Hall-of-Famers Mike Ditka and James Lofton, Lew’s former teammates, and more, tell a story that desperately needs to be told by those inside the game. DCP digital. (BS)