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Going for Home

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GOING FOR HOME is a feature documentary about a community searching for stability after losing nearly everything--and finding it, unexpectedly, on a Little League baseball field. In the aftermath of the Eaton Canyon fire, the racially and economically diverse community of Altadena faces devastation on every front: homes destroyed, families displaced, and a long, uncertain road to recovery. Amid the chaos, one institution refuses to fold--the Central Altadena Little League. With fields damaged, players scattered, and parents stretched to their limits, the league makes a quiet but resolute decision: the season will go on. What unfolds is far more than a sports story. GOING FOR HOME follows a season in which baseball becomes both refuge and reckoning, a place where children process loss without language, and adults wrestle with how to provide normalcy when normal no longer exists. As the team pushes toward an improbable championship run, the film weaves together intimate, verité moments--practices interrupted by rebuilding efforts, postgame talks shadowed by insurance battles, and families redefining what "home" even means.

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Eric Simonson

Director

Eric Simonson

Screenwriter

Sue Cremin

Producer

Jon Levin

Executive Producer

Linne Radmin

Executive Producer

Eric Simonson

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Synopsis GOING FOR HOME is a feature documentary about a community searching for stability after losing nearly everything--and finding it, unexpectedly, on a Little League baseball field. In the aftermath of the Eaton Canyon fire, the racially and economically diverse community of Altadena faces devastation on every front: homes destroyed, families displaced, and a long, uncertain road to recovery. Amid the chaos, one institution refuses to fold--the Central Altadena Little League. With fields damaged, players scattered, and parents stretched to their limits, the league makes a quiet but resolute decision: the season will go on. What unfolds is far more than a sports story. GOING FOR HOME follows a season in which baseball becomes both refuge and reckoning, a place where children process loss without language, and adults wrestle with how to provide normalcy when normal no longer exists. As the team pushes toward an improbable championship run, the film weaves together intimate, verité moments--practices interrupted by rebuilding efforts, postgame talks shadowed by insurance battles, and families redefining what "home" even means.
Director
Eric Simonson
Producer
Sue Cremin
Screenwriter
Eric Simonson
Production Co
Peripatetic
Genre
Documentary, Sports
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 22m