00:00A truly wonderful film, and to talk about is the director, David Altraggi, and also Roberto Clemente Jr. here on Newswire.
00:07Gentlemen, what an honor it is to have you here on the show ahead of the premiere on the 12th of September.
00:13David, I'll start with you, and then, Roberto, I know we have a lot to talk about, too.
00:17David, the rumor is that you were a great baseball player as a kid, and that's how you got interested.
00:22No, I'm just kidding.
00:22That is, yeah, very false rumor.
00:25I heard the opposite, a little lighthearted to begin, but, you know, certainly, congratulations.
00:30What a wonderful film this was.
00:32I did not expect to be as emotionally invested in a film like this as I have, and certainly, as somebody who has followed a lot of sports documentaries,
00:43I know that this one was very close to your heart growing up outside of Pittsburgh, and so let's start with that.
00:48Your idea behind getting involved in the film and choosing to put it together.
00:52Yeah, I mean, it started in 2018 or 19, and it's just, I mean, let's be honest, it's a scary time to be a human right now in the world.
01:05There's just so much division.
01:06There's just so much just fighting, and I just was, like, looking for something, someone to give me some hope and someone that I could make a film about that my kids could look up to as, like, you know, just like, hey, your lives matter.
01:21And I remembered, you know, I remembered hearing that this guy, this Pittsburgh pirate who died years before I was born, died helping people.
01:31So I started doing research and was just blown away.
01:38You know, as someone who was terrible at baseball, I respected deeply what he did on the field, but I was most moved by what he did off the field.
01:48These just acts of kindness and empathy for outsiders, for, you know, people who would be viewed as nobodies, and that he sought them out.
02:02And that just so deeply moved me.
02:05I said, I went to my producing partner and said, dude, we've got to make this film.
02:10And so, you know, I was, that started this incredible journey in 2019 that, you know, I connected with the Clemente Museum here in Pittsburgh, Dwayne Reader,
02:23and he helped me get an interview with Roberto's mom before she passed away that was so special.
02:28I think it was, Roberto, it was the last interview she did before she passed, right?
02:31I think it was, and, you know, that was just, you know, so special.
02:36And then, of course, getting to know Roberto as a, I guess, just as a friend, I've become friends with him,
02:44which is, you know, such a, been such a blessing to know his family and his family's incredible story.
02:49So it's been a wild, wild six-year ride, and I'm just so excited to be able to share this film with the world.
02:58Yeah, September the 12th is the debut.
03:00Roberto, what an honor it is to have you here on Newswire.
03:03I really appreciate it.
03:05And what I like to say about your father, and, you know, not just the film in general,
03:08but it being, you know, somebody who broadcasts baseball, is that your father was truly a one-of-one.
03:14I don't think that's said enough in sports.
03:16People talk about goats and the best ever, but there was just simply nobody like him,
03:22and you got to share so many moments that you still remember as a kid,
03:26and a lot of moments, too, that were sort of in your family and also in the charitable work or in silence.
03:32Nobody knew that it was around.
03:35Yes, Craig, thanks for having us.
03:37I can tell you that the story, and I can tell you the job that David did was very difficult
03:42because there are so many stories within the story to be able to pick and choose
03:47how you're going to tie this story together in less than two hours, really,
03:53being able to get the whole story out there as much as you can.
03:57But he was truly a Renaissance man and someone that truly impacted so many people
04:03because of not only the way he played the game,
04:07but I always say that he was an angel that happened to play baseball.
04:10And then, of course, there were so many people about the story out there.
04:16But I know that one of the things that you did was make of a big dream,
04:17but I need to say, yeah, I think it's a very interesting thing.
04:18I think it's important that this is the gospel of a human being,
04:19but I really think that it's important that the story of a fantasy root
04:23is that it doesn't seem to be a very interesting thing.
04:24But it's mainly that we still seem to be a big dream of understanding.
04:26And I think that this story or a big dream of the story,
04:29is that it's a big dream of a day that it's like a true value of the story.
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