AFI Dallas International Film Festival - ‘JUMP!’

In Victory Plaza

(USA, 2007, 85 mins)

Directed By: Helen Hood Scheer

Jump! follows kids on five teams from around the country who push their physical and psychological limits in pursuit of winning the World Championship. Part extreme sport, part art form, their moves are masterfully choreographed and bursting with rhythm, sweat and originality. After arduous drilling and mind-boggling performances, rivalry and collaboration have dramatic unexpected results.

Beginning at the start of the 2005 jump rope season, the teams create mind-boggling routines and meticulously train for regional competitions around the country. Each jumper’s defining traits are established through interviews and vérité scenes at practice and in their lives outside of the gym.

Helen Hood Scheer gives us an inside look at an intense new sport, and the team members show us that competition isn’t always about winning and that winning is about improving yourself.

Information from the AFI website