Gurgle: Pulling Water: Part of 2022 Flyover Film Festival

World Premiere

Gurgle: Pulling Water
Directed and produced by Richard Van Kleeck

Sunday, July 31, 5:30 pm

$12 / $8 Speed and Louisville Film Society members

This illuminating and spirited documentary film celebrates the excitement, life lessons, history, challenges, humor, danger, adaptive achievements, and sacred moments surrounding the sport of rowing–once the most popular spectator sport in America. 

Featuring Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic; archaeologist, author, professor, and rower John Hale; the amazing story of Oksana Masters, one of the world’s most decorated paralympic athletes who grew up in an orphanage near Chernobyl in Ukraine; and a host of other characters that inhabit the world of rowing. The film features original music by Sean Schafer Hennessy. 2022, U.S., DCP, 57 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Followed by a post-screening discussion.