Blog: Posts in “Alaska Film” Category

Next Tuesday, March 9, KAKM, the public television station in Anchorage, will be airing portions of  Touching the Game, Alaska as part of their March pledge drive.  The show will run from 7:00pm-8:30pm and feature in-house interviews with representatives from the Alaska Baseball League.  The DVD of the film, which features the full-length 1 hour and 40 minute documentary will be made available to PBS supporters who make pledges during the drive.

Co-producer and Director Jim Carroll was interviewed yesterday on the  radio podcast show New York Baseball Digest about the documentary Touching the Game, Alaska.  You can listen to the entire interview here.

You now can get all the latest information on our Touching the Game films on the social network sites Facebook and Twitter.  Our ever-growing Facebook fan page can be found here.  Become a fan and get updates, reviews, screening dates and more. If you are a Twitter person, you can get your Touching the Game tweets here.  We will also be updating this blog as well.  Stay in touch with us as we present our award-winning films of amateur baseball to the world.

The screening of Touching the Game, Alaska last week in Boston was a great success, attended by many friends and supporters as well as a number of Boston Red Sox including Terry Francona, Brad Mills and John Farrell. Another screening in L.A. was also a tremendous success, thanks to Bob Sharka and his organization Friends of Film. Both screenings have opened some doors for us, including possible international distribution.

The buzz is building and in fact we’ve done interviews and been featured on a number of TV stations and web publications. Check out the latest interviews with filmmakers Jim Carroll and Anthony Keel on NECN and Boston.com

As we barrel toward official DVD Release at the end of November, we will be presenting Touching the Game, Alaska at a screening in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

Other screenings have been tremendous fun, the film is causing a stir, and attendance by all sorts of baseball and documentary fans at these screenings has contributed immensely to the rapidly approaching completion of the project.

We hope you’ll join us for a Sneak Preview of the film on Tuesday, October 13th at 7p.m. at the Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge MA.

Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through our webstore or by contacting 617 775-8169 0r 617 320-4411.

Touching the Game, Alaska made it’s Anchorage premiere last Thursday night to a crowd of over 230 people at the Bear Tooth Theatre.  Director Jim Carroll was on hand for the event and received many thanks and praises for the film.  Anchorage is the heart of baseball in Alaska with two teams in the Alaska Baseball League.  A third team in Palmer is only an hour away.  The energy of the crowd was upbeat not only for the film, but for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots who were still competing in the National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita, KS, one of four teams left.   Attending the screening were representatives from all three area teams as well as Vicky Boucher, the wife of the late Red Boucher, the founder of modern day baseball in Alaska.  Red passed away in June, the same day that Touching the Game, Alaska made it’s premiere in Fairbanks.  A great time was had by all at the Bear Tooth!  Plans are now under way for a screening in Palmer, AK, as well as possibly a few East Coast screenings, and don’t forget, you can pre-order the 2-disc DVD of Touching the Game, Alaska here.

Touching the Game, Alaska, the newly released documentary about the Alaska Baseball League will make it’s Anchorage premiere on Thursday, August 13 at the Bear Tooth Theatre Pub in Anchorage, AK.  Tickets are $7 and go on sale August 4th.  The film starts at 8:00pm.  The Bear Tooth is a great venue for both food and independent films.  Touching the Game, Alaska premiered in Fairbanks, AK on June 19th, during the Midnight Sun Weekend, and was very well received.  Anchorage is Alaska’s largest city and supports two ABL teams, the Anchorage Glacier Pilots and the Anchorage Bucs.  Among many threads, the film details how both these rivals got their start and features several of the team’s MLB alumni.  The Mat-Su Miners of Palmer, AK and Peninsula Oilers of Kenai, AK  are not too far from Anchorage as well so we are looking to get a big crowd for this end of the season baseball celebration!

Touching the Game, Alaska premiered in Fairbanks on Friday night at Pioneer Park!
Despite inclement weather, the turnout was superb and the film was incredibly well received. It was great to see it on a big screen and it looks beautiful! This showing was the first of several we have planned in conjunction with the teams.
Anchorage is the next target, and if we can work it out, we’re shooting for the last week/weekend in July, 1st of August. This would co-incide with the league’s Showcase weekend and would be a perfect time for screenings.
On a sad note, Henry “Red” Boucher, the founder of the Goldpanners (and eventually the league itself), died on Friday afternoon after a long fight against a variety of ailments. Red was a truly a pioneer in the legendary sense, and affected more lives than anyone will ever know. He was 88, and he will be greatly missed.
Links to a varitey of articles on both the film premiere and Red can be found on our Facebook and Twitter Pages or take a look at the Fairbanks News-Miner or the Alaska Daily news

And we’re selling alot of the 2 Film DVD Pre-order Packages on-line. Specials on all DVDs available now.

The 2-Disc Touching the Game, Alaska DVD is scheduled to be released on 11/30/09, but we are now accepting pre-orders.  At a price of $19.95, the DVD will feature the full-length director’s cut of the film as well as plenty of extra features and unseen footage, and if you pre-order now you will receive free shipping upon the DVD release!  There will also be a discounted price if you order both our films: Touching The Game, Alaska and our 2004 release Touching the Game, The Story of the Cape Cod Baseball League.  To order, click here.

An additional screening of Touching The Game, Alaska will be taking place Friday night at 9:00pm at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks.  The first showing will be at 7:00pm and will be preceded by a parade walk of baseball fans from Growden Park after the Goldpanners MSG weekend kickoff game.  If you can’t make that event, you now have a chance to see the new in-depth documentary on the Alaska Baseball League at 9:00pm for just $10.  Tickets will be available at the door.