C4 just completed editing of the feature doc “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t” for Bombay Pictures.  

Here’s a little about the film from the film’s website:

http://www.dtmic.com/

What do over 160,000 kids from 30 countries have in common? The determination and imagination to know anything is possible!

Destination Imagination, is a live event that’s been happening for over 26 years, bringing together 160,000 kids and young adults from 30 countries in a mind bending, creative problem solving competition. With 16,000 person arena-filled grand championships, celebrity sponsors, and only one winner in each category, it has proven to be the perfect proving ground for sheer creativity. It has clear rules, impossible sounding challenges, and, year after year, it has found the world’s greatest young creative minds.

From cluttered garages to shiny floors, we follow five teams throughout the competition’s process. Each is vastly different in both age and personality types. From an Elementary team interested in pizza parties to a Middle school team with a prospective Broadway star, and a High School team focused on community outreach, they all show us what it means to abandon limitations and truly create. Even if that means mastering a newspaper and glue contraption that will hold over 700 pounds!

Each team’s defining traits spring forward through vibrant interviews, flip camera home videos, and scenes of distressed practices and jaw dropping performances. There will be shaving cream wars, formal newsprint / duct tape dresses, and human bicycles. We’ll also get an insiders look at some key players, including parents, team managers and tournament appraisers.

After 4 months of rigorous practices, performances, fundraising events, exhausting flights and road trips, the teams will journey from a CA State Tournament to the Annual Global Tournaments in Knoxville TN where 3 mind blowing days of tough competitions, Family Camps, Pin Trading and After-Parties await them….

Finally, we are brought to the moment each team has been waiting for and working for, the infamous Award Ceremony that attracts over 11,000 beach balls, a parade with teams from around the world, prizes, a music concert, fireworks and enough adrenaline to power up a space shuttle! With cool awards like the “Renaissance” and “Da Vinci”, our teams will find out where they placed amongst hundreds of others in this world competition. It’s easy to feel the energy of this event, as pulses race and hearts beat under the thunderous roar of the crowd. Win or lose, through fears, tears, anxiety, adulation and a whole lot of FUN, every kid walks away with memories and experiences to last a lifetime.

‘Spellbound’ meets the ‘Olympics’ of Creativity with an unstoppable determination and unbreakable spirit, when a handful of Destination Imagination teams, ages 8 to 18, involved in a worldwide creative problem solving competition teach us a lesson about the power of persistence
and teamwork.