Streel Films is proud to announce that Hot Docs favorite and two time Golden Sheaf Award winner (Best Documentary – POV and Best Emerging Filmmaker) JACKPOT will have its Canadian Broadcast Premiere as part of Global’s Currents on Wednesday, June 23rd 2010 at 10pm EST.

JACKPOT takes the viewer inside the sometimes strange, sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and always compelling world of hardcore Bingo players. With their army of lucky charms at their side, their 20 cards laid out in front of them, and their hopes and dreams riding on the next number out of the machine, these passionate players have devoted an innumerable amount of money, time, and effort to the pursuit of a game that does not require skill but rather patience, determination, and a great deal of luck. As the we peel away the layers, JACKPOT becomes about more than the game of Bingo, it becomes about the nature of luck, superstition, chance, and the need for human beings to feel like victory is possible, even if it is always just one number away.

PRESS:

“Jackpot has some surprisingly beautiful cinematography and its characters will to linger in audiences’ heads well after the credits.” – Chris Knight, National Post

“The ink-stained regulars at Delta Bingo make an indelible impression in Alan Black’s 50-minute tour of the Toronto bingo mecca. Reminiscent
of Errol Morris’ early studies of humans in their least natural habitats, Jackpot is rich in detail and feeling as it conveys the highs and (more so) lows in the lives of some very determined daubers. A marvelously odd score by the FemBots adds further splashes of colour.” 4 Stars – Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly

“Alan Black’s gentle, poetic study of Etobicoke’s Delta Bingo (on St. Clair near Weston) offers a glimpse of a place where cheerful optimism and desperate compulsion collide…The gliding camera and unhurried editorial structure recall Errol Morris, as does Black’s obvious respect for his subjects and their eccentricities.” – Norm Wilner, Now Magazine

JACKPOT premieres on Global’s Currents Wednesday, June 23rd at 10pm EST.

Global Currents Page:
http://news.globaltv.com/Jackpot+airs+June+2010/3107189/story.html

Website:
http://www.jackpotmovie.com