Gigante - an upcoming documentary about Andrés Torres

San Francisco Giants center-fielder, Andrés Torres, came from humble means, found rejection, mockery, and disappointment, and struggled 10 years in the minors before becoming a major league baseball player.

Andrés has developed strategies and support systems that helped him to become a key player in the San Francisco Giants' 2010 World Series win. His story inspires hope and motivates others to embrace their own challenges and never give up on their dreams.

Directed by Sundance award-winning director, Chusy Haney-Jardine.

DVD release July 2011
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Tags:

• Gigante
• Andres Torres
• San Francisco Giants
• Baseball
• ADD
• ADHD

[earlylatebrunch]

Andres Torres is my hero.

[11britina]

i can't wait to see the movie, i love Andres and this hit home to me, because my little brother has ADHD, and this movie will be so moving that when it comes out i can't wait to show the family. Andres Torres is what i believe what makes up a great Baseball player: Greatful, Skilled, Honest, Hard working and just in his eyes, angelic.

been a fan all my life, with the NL West title,the NLCS title&being called champions in San Francisco. It was all amazing.

love the giants and i always will.

[MsLakaga]

@stewie2510 (cont') do something with themselves but just can't get it together....stewie2510, read the New York Times article regarding this. If you can't relate to struggling like Andres has, then I don't think you're ADHD....a lot of people are overdiagnosed. Just saying.

[MsLakaga]

@stewie2510 it still sucks sometimes for even those who take their medicine. Medication helps but it's not a cure...for me at least it's not.

I struggle like no other with it, and this video/New York Times article made me cry...but at the same time I felt embarrassed about it, because like you said, it's not cancer...but that's the embarrassment associated with the stigma attached to it. The truth is, it sucks like no other for a lot of the people who are truly ADHD, yet who really want to

[MsLakaga]

@MsLakaga feel guilty about a documentary that accurately portrays (emotionally) just how much I've struggled with it. It sucks....I love that I'm zany, creative....but my god I would love to be able to pick up/organize my house, handle having a credit card or even a DEBIT CARD (I have to use all cash now/checks)...it just can really suck sometimes.

[MsLakaga]

@MsLakaga (cont'd) how other people would perceive it...BECAUSE of the stigma attached to it. In the New York Times article I read, it said, “He’s not constructing an artifice,” Haney-Jardine said. “He’s terribly flawed, and the movie will show that. But he is trying to do good.”

I really hope this documentary shows that...if you're truly ADHD, it can be GD miserable. I hope that this documentary DOES remove some of the stigma attached to ADHD so that I don't automatically feel guilty

[MsLakaga]

I know how hard I've personally struggled with ADHD, and I know the stigma attached to it. When I first saw this video, it touched me like no other and made me cry, yet I still I got embarrassed. Because of the stigma attached to this disorder.

While I know my own struggles (it feels like my brain goes to war with itself 95% of the time, I have virtually zero short term memory, etc.), I was embarrassed because of the dramatic music attached to the preview, everything else...because I knew

[jconthemoveinguelph]

I recently was diagnosed with Adult ADHD and am coming to terms with what it all means....I am looking forward to learning more about this young man's journey and connecting the dots...

JD

[jayc2390]

Welcome to the Mets. Nice to have a guy like Andres on our side.

[AtCw593]

Although now they might have to change the name of the movie to Metante.

[AtCw593]

LET'S GO METS!