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| Directed by | Marilyn Argrelo |
| Written by | Amy Sewell |
| Produced by | Marilyn Argrelo Amy Sewell Brian David Cange Wilder Knight II |
| Starring | Madeleine Hackney |
| Cinematography | Claudia Raschke-Robinson |
| Edited by | Sabine Krayenbuhl |
| Music by | Joseph Baker Steven Lutvak |
Production companies | Nickelodeon Movies Just One Production |
| Distributed by | Paramount Classics |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $9,079,042 |
Mad Hot Ballroom is a 2005 documentary film by director Marilyn Agrelo and writer and producer Amy Sewell about a ballroom dance program in the New York City Department of Education, the New York City public school system for fifth graders. Several styles of dance are shown in the film, such as tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba and merengue.[1]
Plot
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Based on a feature article written by Sewell, Mad Hot Ballroom looks inside the lives of 11-year-old New York City public school kids who journey into the world of ballroom dancing and reveal pieces of themselves along the way. Told from the students' perspectives as the children strive toward the final citywide competition, the film chronicles the experiences of students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst and Washington Heights. The students are united by an interest in the ballroom dancing lessons, which builds over a 10-week period and culminates in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. As the teachers cajole their students to learn the intricacies of the various disciplines, Agrelo intersperses classroom footage with the students' musings on life; many of these reveal an underlying maturity.[1]
Production and reception
The documentary premiered at the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and was purchased by Paramount Classics and Nickelodeon Movies. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States on May 13, 2005. Mad Hot Ballroom was the second highest grossing documentary in 2005 after March of the Penguins.[2] As of February 7, 2012, it had earned over $8.1 million, making it the sixteenth-highest-grossing documentary film in the United States (in nominal dollars, from 1982 to the present).[3]
Awards
Awards bestowed upon Mad Hot Ballroom include:[4]
- The Christopher Award in 2006
- Best Documentary at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2005
- The Audience Award at the Philadelphia Film Festival
- Satellite Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2005
See also
References
- ^ a b "Mad Hot Ballroom - Rotten Tomatoes." Rotten Tomatoes. 16 April 2014.
- ^ Hot Ballroom.htm Mad Hot Ballroom at Box Office Mojo
- ^ "Documentary Movies". www.boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
- ^ IMDB Award List
External links
- Official website
- americanballroomtheater.com - Dancing Classrooms
- Mad Hot Ballroom at IMDb
- Mad Hot Ballroom on Box Office Mojo
- 2005 films
- 2000s documentary films
- Ballroom dancing films
- Directorial debut films
- Documentary films about children
- Documentary films about dance
- Documentary films about education in the United States
- Films about competitions
- Documentary films about New York City
- Films set in Brooklyn
- Paramount Vantage films
- Public education in New York City
- American dance films
- American films
- Nickelodeon Movies films
- Films about education