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Swimming for dollars
UT film grad Matt Cook’s new documentary “Swim” is making the rounds at film festivals, including the GI Film Festival in Washington and the Jackson Hole Film Festival in Wyoming.
Cook and the film’s subjects — Rush Vann and David Broyles (son of formerly Austin-based screenwriter and Texas Monthly co-founder Bill Broyles) — are Iraq war veterans. “Swim” chronicles Vann and Broyles trying to raise $100,00 for disabled war vets by — you got it — swimming.
“As symbolic awareness,” Cook tells us, “they decide to attempt to become the 16th and 17th Americans to swim the Strait of Gibraltar, a feat fewer Americans have accomplished than climbing to the summit of Mount Everest. The film follows them as they train in Lake Austin, then on to Spain for the actual swim.”
Watch a clip:
We will definitely be following the film as it gets closer to playing Austin, so keep an eye peeled.
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