Nina Is an Athlete

[Plays 1/19 at 10:30 a.m. at Yarrow Theater A in Park City and 1/22 at 3 p.m. at the Student Union Theater at University of Utah during the 30th Slamdance Film Festival that runs Jan. 19-25; for more information, log on to https://slamdance.com.] Ravit Markus' touching, inspirational, indepth, down-to-earth, insightful, candid, 72-minute documentary that highlights wheelchair-bound, paraplegic, Georgia-born, 40-year-old Israeli school counselor and badminton champion Nina Gorodetsky, who is married to coach Dor Kessel and has two sons, as she trains with her coach Leon Pugach over a three-year period to compete in the Paralympic Games in Tokyo in 2020; she has won several medals in the European Para-Badminton Championships both individually and in mixed doubles with Amir Levi.
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