Today’s chess video
A CHESS PLAYER is about what happens when the thing you love, or the thing you are passionate about becomes all that you are…
‘A CHESS PLAYER is about what happens when the thing you love, or the thing you are passionate about becomes all that you are. If my last film, THE AMENDMENTS OF A TRASH MAN, is about not giving up on your dreams, then A CHESS PLAYER is about what happens when that dream becomes your everything.
It’s a tragic story with big twists and surprising turns. I know. I know. We start talking chess and you think Bobby Fisher. Think more like Fight Club, with underground basement tournaments, smoke and bare lightbulbs hovering above a shifting crowd of onlookers, watching, shouting and passing money as two people play against the clock — playing chess.
My story spans 50 years, following the main character, Tony, as he discovers his love for the game, builds his life on it and falls from its grace.’ READ MORE HERE.