REQUIEM FOR A RUNNING BACK
Year: 2016
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Run Time:
89 minutes
Director Rebecca Carpenter’s father Lew Carpenter had an illustrious ten-year career in the NFL playing for Cleveland and Detroit and winning three NFL Championships with Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers. When he died in 2010, his brain was studied by Boston University and found to have symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy—a degenerative neurocognitive disorder that can cause episodes of rage, social withdrawal, and other unusual behaviors. Armed with answers to some of her biggest questions about her father, Carpenter has made an important and groundbreaking documentary chronicling the effects that playing professional football has on the health of the players and residual effects it has on their family members. In REQUIEM FOR A RUNNING BACK, we’re given interviews with Hall of Fame players and coaches, doctors who have dedicated their careers to CTE study, and the families of former players looking for answers as to why the NFL would continue to deny the link between playing football and the demise of once-stoic men. As NFL players continue to make headlines for amnesia, rage-induced attacks on family members, and suicides, this film begins as a tribute and ends up being a testimony to honor those who have sacrificed so much. —T.W.
Sidebar
THE SPORTS SECTION
Genre
Recommended for High School Students +
Competitions
Reel Women Direct Award for Excellence in Directing by a Woman
Global Health Competition
Director
Rebecca Carpenter
Filmography
REQUIEM FOR A RUNNING BACK (2016)
Producer
Sara Dee
Cinematography
Eric Wycoff
Editing
Elisa Bonora, Troy Takai, Parker Laramie
Donate
Your donation helps fulfill our mission to promote artistically and culturally significant film arts through education and exhibition.
Film Festival
Films
CIFF Streams
Plan Your Day
Events
CIFF Media
Archive
Store
Support Us
FAQs
- General
- Membership & Passes
- Tickets & Vouchers
- CIFF46 Program
- CIFF46 @ PSQ
- CIFF46 Streams
- How to Stream
- Streams Glossary
- Call for Entries
Press Room
About
Policies
Financials
Admin Office
Cleveland International Film Festival
2510 Market Avenue
Cleveland OH 44113-3434
(216) 623-3456 | EMAIL
©CIFF, 2023
Site Design + Development 
