Northwest Film Forum

“Oh, my God! The most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heart-rending... exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football! California has won the Big Game over Stanford! Oh, excuse me for my voice, but I have never, never seen anything like it.” — Joe Starkey of KGO-AM 810

On November 20th, 1982, one of the most celebrated, controversial, and hilarious moments in the history of American football played out in a rivalry game between Stanford University and the University of California Berkley. 

The 21 seconds that became known as "The Play" are recognizable to nearly every fan of American football. But almost no one knows the story behind The Play itself.

Join us for a screening of The Play, a new independent documentary work-in-progress by local filmmaker Peter J. Vogt, and indulge your love for college football, campus memories, and the sports spectacle that has become an American legend.

We’ll host an in-depth conversation with the filmmaker, following the screening, to get the inside scoop on eyewitness reports, gossip and insider secrets about The Play itself.

Special ticket pricing: $25. This is a fundraising event benefiting Northwest Film Forum, and your ticket purchase is tax-deductible.

Peter J. Vogt has been a tech worker, farmer, mountaineer, and, for the last 15 years a filmmaker. His work has premiered, among other places, at AFI, Sundance, and the New York Film Festival. Highlights include: "Nuts & Bolts," winner of several film festival prizes, "Up Thornton Creek" which appeared in the Emmy winning series "Natural Heroes", "High & Outside," about pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee, and "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense" (the highly acclaimed television series and feature film), which was chosen to be part of AFI's 20/20 international program. His latest film, "Dino Saluzzi: Every Sound Is Music" will hit the festival circuit in 2014.