SF DocFest 2024: Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story

Filmmakers in attendance

Controversy is real and emotions unchecked as players nationwide, novices to pros, paddle up and take to the court. Pickleball, America’s fastest-growing sport, boasts a roster of 37 million players nationwide, creating a multi-million-dollar craze that has celebrity investors and Wall Street jumping over the net.

Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story, captures in real time the pro-Pickleball pioneers, and volleys from the senior citizen nudists next door to the billionaire investors cashing in on America’s latest gold rush. Winner takes all as two wealthy Texas entrepreneurs form rival professional pickleball leagues and feud over the world’s top players. Everyone’s in the game, including LeBron James and Tom Brady, who bet big on pro pickleball when buying teams in an emerging league.

As America’s newest pro sport segues into its terrible twos, emotions run high through failed mergers, re-mergers, boardroom brawls, and tense negotiations with a bevy of pro players caught in the crossfire. Dreambreaker: A Pickleball Story is a humorous look into the serious business of our country’s fastest-growing sport and the celebrities, billionaires, and everyday folks scrambling to get in on the action.