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IFC Films will open Patrick Creadon’s WORDPLAY, a new documentary film featuring New York Times Crossword editor Will Shortz, Jon Stewart , President Bill Clinton and Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina, in New York on Friday, June 16th at the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at 3rd Street) and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas (Broadway between 62nd & 63rd Streets). WORDPLAY, will open in Los Angeles on June 23rd and nationally on June 30th.
Directed by Patrick Creadon and a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it debuted, WORDPLAY takes you into the world of Will Shortz, editor of The New York Times Crossword. Also known to millions as National Public Radio's "Puzzle Master," Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating, and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way. Meet Shortz's die-hard fans -- President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart, filmmaker Ken Burns, the Indigo Girls, and Yankee's ace pitcher Mike Mussina -- and discover why over 50 million Americans do crosswords every week.
WORDPLAY also introduces us to several world-class crossword solvers and follows them to Stamford, CT, as they compete in the 28th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament (ACPT). Hosted and directed by Shortz, the tournament is the nation's oldest and largest crossword competition. Competitors travel from all over the world to attend and vary in age from teenagers to octogenarians. Over the course of one long, snowy weekend almost five hundred competitors battle it out for the title “Crossword Champ.� The competition is based on both speed and accuracy, and one wrong (or blank) square guarantees that someone else will be taking home the trophy.
Catch all the action at what Shortz calls “the most exciting competition in tournament history!� Explore the madness and the mirth, the comedy and the drama that is our national obsession with these puzzles. Whether you’re a Monday-only solver or a Saturday “brain-busting� wizard, you’re sure to enjoy your very own “A-ha!� moment when you experience WORDPLAY.
WORDPLAY, which screened recently at the Tribeca and Hot Docs Film Festivals, is a presentation of O’Malley-Creadon Productions and is produced by Christine O’Malley.
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