News / Articles

Go Filmmakers Looking for US Go Congress Photos, Videos

"The Surrounding Game" filmmakers are looking for old photos of the annual U.S. Go Congress. "The story of American go is a central element of the film," co-director Cole Pruitt tells the E-Journal. "We've accumulated archival photos from the AGA archives, courtesy of David Doshay, but we want to petition the American go community to send us old media -- physical photos, digitized photos, videos and cassettes -- from any of the Congresses. The best stuff would be wide shots of playing halls or crowds, or top AGA officials in attendance at the Congress." The filmmakers are on the final stretch of editing and are "on track to complete narrative editing by the end of the summer, followed by film festival submissions starting in the fall," says Pruitt. "We're working with an LA-based animator and NY-based composer on animated sequences and the score for the film and are incorporating them into current cuts." photo: at the first US Go Congress in 1985; photographer unknown