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Ping Pong8 players with 703 years between them compete in the World over 80s Table Tennis Championships in Inner Mongolia. Terry (81) having been given a week to live, gets in sight of winning gold. Inge (89) has used table tennis to train her way out of the dementia ward she committed herself to. Australian legend Dorothy deLow is 100, and finds herself a mega celebrity in this rarefied world and Texan Lisa Modlich, a new-comer at 85 years old, is determined to do whatever it takes to win her first gold. This film is as much about the tenacity of the human spirit as it is a meditation on mortality.
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"It is about ageing, mortality, friendship, ambition and love. The stories stay with you for hours, weeks, after the credits have rolled. But perhaps its most powerful achievement is to leave us with a more humane conception of sport, and of life itself."
Matthew Syed - The Times
Meet the filmmakers
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Producer - Anson Hartford Anson Hartford has produced documentaries for the BBC, Aljazeera English, Sky Arts as well as the Film Council, BBC Films and a host of independent ventures. The last film he made was a BBC4 Arts documentary ‘James Ravilious; a world in photographs’ about one of the great unknowns of British photography.
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Director – Hugh Hartford Hugh is a producer and director of documentaries for UK and international broadcasters through Banyak Films - a company he co-founded. Hugh’s last project as producer, ‘Us Now’, was first aired on Channel 4’s international feature documentary slot True Stories. He regularly makes current affairs documentaries for Al Jazeera English. Ping Pong is Hugh's first directed feature documentary.
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