Got City Game! Cleveland, a new web reality
show set in Cleveland, commenced shooting this past weekend. Local
music-video director Don Tyler will direct the webisodes, with students
from Cuyahoga County Community College assisting. Much like Amazing
Race, Got City Game! Cleveland gives three different teams a
variety of challenges they have to complete. The team that finishes
first wins a year’s free use of a Tremont loft and tickets to downtown
events for a year. “It’s a reality game show to show off what’s amazing
about Cleveland,” says executive producer Barbara Oney. “Each show
features a different neighborhood of Cleveland. We’re featuring all the
cool inner-ring neighborhoods: Tremont, Detroit Shoreway, University
Circle, the downtown area, the St. Clair and Superior areas. Our goal
is to show off how unique these neighborhoods are and help bring
forward information about the amazing job opportunities there are here
and the lifestyle assets we have here, and do it in a way that young
people will want to be involved with.” Filming will last for two weeks.
There will be a total of five webisodes; the first one will air the
first week of November. Go to gotcitygame.tv for more information.
The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque (11141 East Blvd.,
216.241.7450, cia.edu/cinematheque) will show three
films as part of Case Western Reserve University’s Cultures of Green
Film Festival. First is Waterlife, a Canadian movie about
threats to the Great Lakes’ fresh water. It shows at 7 p.m. Saturday,
October 24, and 4 p.m. Sunday, October 25. Manufactured
Landscapes, another Canadian film, shows at 7 p.m. Monday, October
26. Ray Watkins, a Case postdoctoral fellow in English, introduces the
movie, an artful exploration of China’s rapid industrialization. And
finally (and this is a stretch), the Kevin Costner sci-fi flick
Waterworld shows at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 28. Tickets to
each film are $8.50.
As part of the Bringing Nature Home Film Fest, there is a free
screening of Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock’s 2004
Academy Award-nominated documentary about the ill effects of eating
nothing but McDonald’s for a month. The movie shows at 9 p.m. Tuesday,
October 27, at the Rocky River Nature Center (24000 Valley Pkwy. North
Olmsted); an informal discussion follows the screening. For more
information, call 440.734.6660 or visit clevelandmetroparks.com.
This article appears in Oct 21-27, 2009.
