Directed and Produced by
SAM CULLMAN
Cinematography by
SAM CULLMAN
SEAN RYON
Editing by
SASHA PERRY
Additional Editing by
KAYE LOGGINS
Original Score Written and Performed by
KYLE SCOTT WILSON
Executive Producers
SALLY JO FIFER
LOIS VOSSEN
JAIME MANHEIMER AND IAN MANHEIMER
DANIEL BERGER
BRIAN C. KELLY
Co-Producers
ALEX JACOBS
SEAN RYON
Executive in Charge of Production
ROYD CHUNG
Supervising Producer
PAM TORNO
Associate Producer
SUSAN COHEN
Featuring
MICHELLE GUZOWSKI
KURT BREUDIGAM
SY DIFIORE
JOE PAVLICK
Also Featuring
MICHAEL BLAUMAN
CHRIS CHABEK
RORY CRUTE
JON DAGATA
CLAY FINKES
KELLY FLAMOS
JACOB FORESTER
DYLAN GLOVER
TIM HORVATH
ZACH HRUBY
ADAM KOCINSKI
JOHN KULINA
AALIYAH LABOY
COLIN MCEWEN
NATE MELARAGNO
RICHARD H. MILLER
HALEY MORRIS
DON NIZNIK
KYLE OSBORNE
TYLER PEACOCK
ALISON SCARPULLA
TOM SCHICKLER
JIM SCHNURR
SUE SHESTINA
JOE STOIS, JR.
JOE STOIS, SR.
DJ SZUCS
BRIAN TOTH
CASSIE TRAINER
CALEB WATERWASH
ALICIA WEINHARDT
IAN ZUPANIC
ALEC
EMILY
CARLI
CASS
CHARLIE
TRACY GRADY
AND THE REST OF THE CLEVELAND TRANSGENDER CHOIR
AMY VAUGHN
GINGER WILLIAMS
HIGH PRAISE APPEARS COURTESY OF STEADFAST RECORDS
SAM RADFORD AND ALEC SCHUMANN OF NEW WIZARDS
DAVID AND SUSAN PAVLICK
THERESA FLAMOS
Production Sound by
ALEX JACOBS
JAIME MANHEIMER
Additional Cinematography by
RUSTIN MCCANN
Assistant Editing by
MIKE PETERSON
SEAN RYON
CHRISTIAN SABO
Editing Consultants
CARLA GUTIERREZ
JULI VIZZA
SOWJANYA KUDVA
Supervising Sound Engineer
BRANDON J. PERRY
Colorist
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Production rental by
CLEVELAND CAMERA RENTAL
JOEL TRENT
Insurance Furnished by
FILM EMPORIUM
Legal Counsel
JUSTINE JACOBS
HEATHER BUTTERFIELD
ISAAC HAGER
Still photography by
ALISON SCARPULLA
SEAN RYON
ALEX JACOBS
Fiscal Sponsor
METEOR FILMS
Archival Photos Courtesy of
MICHELLE GUZOWSKI
Blushing Red Boudoir Photos Courtesy of
MICHELLE GUZOWSKI
Additional Music
“SHE IS ME”
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY MICHELLE GUZOWSKI
Special Thanks
Raquel Almazon
Adam Baran
David Barker
Teddy Blanks
Brian Boyd
Claudia Breudigam
Kate Brokaw
Val Buchannan
Buckeye Beer Engine
Maybe Burke
The Corkscrew Saloon
Purva, Sid and Savi Cullman
Drew DeNicola
Arlene DiFiore
Dan DiMauro
Felix Endara
Kate Fisher
Alison Garrigan
Giant Eagle
Michelle Gold
Jen Grausman
Connie Mahall Hageman
Cory Hajde
Derek Hallquist
Alex Huebsch
Bobby and Jane Jacobs
Susan Kim
Aaron Katz
Adam Kotkin
Larry Levine
Gwen Locke Lis
Lucy Mukerjee
Andrew Mahall
Thomas Mahall
The Mahall Family
Mahall’s Twenty Lanes
Becca Manheimer
Troy Manheimer
Chris McNabb
Ron Miller
Museum of Creative Human Art (MOCHA)
New Day Films
Lizzie Olsen
Jorge Ortiz
Morgan Pehme
Theo Rigby
AJ Russo
Chris Ryon
Kathy Ryon
Ira Sachs
Michael Schoen
Sarah Smith
Kristina Scott and Moses Pavlick
Cameron Swanagon
Mei Ann Teo
Lynn True
David Usui
Nelson Walker
Antoine Washington
Mario Zamora
Independent Lens Short-Form Funding Provided by:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Acton Family Giving
Ford Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Wyncote Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Our League is a co-production of Ten Pin Films, Yellow Cake Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
This program was produced by Ten Pin Films, which is solely responsible for its content.
© 2022 Ten Pin Films. All Rights Reserved.
Our League
Premiered June 15, 2022
A trans woman comes out to her old school Ohio bowling league, in a story about a person and a community in transition.
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About the Documentary
Following an extended hiatus, Michelle Guzowski takes a risk by returning to her favorite local bowling alley in the Ohio Rust Belt, after coming out to fellow bowlers as a transgender woman. While the alley’s new owners made it seem a welcoming space, the changes are hard for old-school bowlers.
The Filmmaker
Sam Cullman is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose works include If a Tree Falls, The House I Live In, Art and Craft, and The Lion's Share. In addition to providing camerawork for his own projects and those he produces, Cullman’s cinematography has also appeared in dozens of other docs for TV and the big screen.
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