The Woods Hole Film Festival series Dinner & A Movie continues on Saturday, January 21st. Dinner & A Movie is a program of the Winter/Spring Film Series, twice-monthly in-person screenings of the best in independent film from January through May 2023. The screenings will be held in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Redfield Auditorium, located at 45 Water Street, Woods Hole.  The program will include films from the past Woods Hole Film Festival as well as other selections curated specifically for this series.” The series continues on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 7 pm with the critically acclaimed feature documentary, SCRUM.

 Saturday, January 21, 2023, 7 pm

 SCRUM, feature documentary by Thomas Morgan, USA, 2020, 78 mins.

 About the film:

Frank McKinney is the first Black college rugby coach in the United States. The new rugby program at Queens University of Charlotte might be an experimental one for the predominantly white Southern institution, but it’s Frank’s dream to build a program and bring diversity to the game he loves. Frank uses scholarships to provide access to education for first-generation
college students. Character and good grades required. Rugby skills? Optional.

In just two seasons, Frank builds a team of some of the most diverse students at Queens. His devotion is palpable, but it comes at a price. As Frank and his players win their way toward the championship, his personal life takes hit after hit, and he must face the consequences of putting all of his focus and passion into the team. While he dominates on the field, his self-esteem is often in flux as he strives to prove himself to his father and keep his love life from falling apart.

Frank’s is an underdog story that celebrates family while challenging the status quo in higher education with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He knows that many of the challenges he faces in his job are a result of systemic racism in higher education, but Frank is determined to change the narrative as he inspires hope in his players for the lives they seek to build.