Wisconsin Film Festival

Wrestling For Jesus: The Tale of T-Money

(USA, 2010, 74 mins, video)

World Premiere

director of photography: Jeffrey Pohorski

Timothy Blackmon felt the drive to evangelize to his fellow man, and did what seemed right in rural South Carolina: he founded an amateur Christian wrestling league to spread the Word. Setting up the battered oilcloth ring in gymnasiums around the county, Wrestling for Jesus might draw a few dozen fans on a good night. Timothy’s better known as T-Money, and he holds together a raggedy group of grizzled old bikers and young skinny wrestlers. It’s tough work, both the praying and the fighting, and inevitably the challenges mount: injuries, family time, and a rival backyard wrestling gang known as the Throne of Anguish Wrestling Federation. Filmmaker Nathan Clarke and director of photography Jeffery Pohorski live in Madison.

Filmmakers Nathan Clarke and Jeffrey Pohorski, and documentary subject Timothy Blackmon, scheduled to attend.

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