Films
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Long before the Washington Nationals brought baseball back to Washington D.C., baseball-loving Michael ‘Crash’ Crescenzo salvaged a run-down elementary school ball field in the center of his Glover Park neighborhood and started the city’s only co-ed, independent neighborhood softball league. The league that began as an excuse for Crash and his friends to drink beer and play ball together has now been bringing players and fans of all ages to the field for 25 years. As housing prices rise and the old neighborhood begins to change, Crash works to keep the softball league and the community together.
Filmmaker Jennifer Crescenzo is Crash’s daughter. At the softball field she is affectionately known as ‘MiniCrash’ since she grew up playing for her dad. They still take the field together every Sunday…
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Posted on May 24, 2010 - by Jennifer
I’m woman 214…
My talented and amazing friend Andrea Leoncavallo, a freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker in Portland, Oregon recently photographed me for her yearlong series “She Inspires 365″ in which she challenged herself to create 365 portraits of women which would be revealed on her blog, one each day. Andrea describes the project as “a space for [...]
Posted on May 13, 2010 - by Jennifer
Karate Kid? Reflections on my first martial arts tournament
On May 1, 2010 I competed in my very first martial arts tournament, the JW Spring Classics in Maryland. I’ve spent several years studying with Sensei Carol Middleton at the D.C. Self Defense Karate Association in Columbia Heights but I was not sure how my training and preparation would stack up against other martial artists [...]
