A Game of Three Halves (series)
Directed by Matthew Bate & Case Jernigan • Documentary & Animation • 2021 • 23 minutes
A five-part animated series that uses the unbridled creativity of handcrafted animation to reveal funny, profound, and illuminating stories from inside the world of football fandom. Premiered at Hot Docs 2021.
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 1
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 4 minutes
Sports journalist, podcaster and week-end player Max Rushden, hilariously ruminates on the frustrastions, disasters and joys of spending his weekends organising and playing amateur Sunday league football. From surviving apocalyptic microcli...
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 2
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 5 minutes
In Iran we go undercover with soccer superfan Sara, who has never been allowed to see an actual game since the government banned women from going to stadiums in 1981. But Sara is no ordinary fan, she has been a leader in a female led activi...
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 3
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 3 minutes
Narrated by esteem author Jonathan Wilson, Keepers tells of the existenstial plight of sport’s ultimate outsider - the football goalkeeper. In a team game - it is the goalkeeper who stands alone - balancing humiliation, disaster and glory. ...
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 4
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 5 minutes
Author Joel Golby recounts how during World Cup 2018 he became the number 1 fan of a soccer team he’d never heard of before - The Wild Boars FC. Trapped 2 kilometres beneath the earth in a flooded cave system an entire schoolboy soccer team...
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A Game of Three Halves - Episode 5
Directed by Matthew Bate • Animation • 2021 • 4 minutes
Using the verbatim comments taken from the first video uploaded to YouTube of Zinedene Zidane’s infamous World Cup final headbutt (11 years ago and with 9 million views) this film excavates the anger, praise, damnation and forgiveness felt ...
