Watch The New UNDEFEATED “Prayer” Clip

Photo of the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football team in Dan Lindsay’s and TJ Martin’s film UNDEFEATED
Photo by: Dan Lindsay/TJ Martin/ The Weinstein Company

A coming-of-age documentary, UNDEFEATED provides audiences an intimate view of an underprivileged group of teens and their inspirational coach, as they attempt to make history in this new clip from the film. It’s one of the 15 in the Documentary Feature category that advanced in the voting process for the 84th Academy Awards®. One hundred twenty-four pictures had originally qualified in the category.

Synopsis

Set in the inner-city of Memphis, UNDEFEATED chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history.

A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand. When he arrived, the team consisted of 17 players, some timeworn equipment and a patch of grass masquerading as a practice field.

Focusing more on winning young men than football games, the football program nevertheless began resurrecting itself and, in 2009, features the most talented team Manassas has ever fielded; a team that seems poised to end the playoff jinx that has plagued the school since time immemorial.

Look for UNDEFEATED in theaters February 10, 2012.