CINE WONDERS Spreadsheet Champions

SESSION TIME
LUNA ON SX
Wed Jan 28
4pm
English, Spanish, French and Greek with English subtitles

A documentary about the biggest competition you've never heard of … yet! Six young people from around the globe channel their dreams into a competition with a difference – a test of their elite mastery of Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel as a competitive sport might sound like a range error. But for quirky US child prodigy Mason, laidback Queensland teen Braydon and extroverted Guatemalan would-be YouTuber Carmina, along with diligent Nam from Vietnam, shy Alkmini from Greece and ambitious De La Paix from Cameroon, their intricate knowledge of the app is an opportunity for not only individual success but also national glory. Selected to participate in the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championships – a Florida event gathering teens and young adults from around the world to demonstrate their mathematical prowess, problem-solving skills and familiarity with the most obscure Excel formulas and functions – each seeks to be crowned the world’s best competitive spreadsheeter. Who will conquer the cells and sheets, and who will go home with #NULL! points?

Travelling the world to follow these six competitors from their homes on five different continents to the pressure-cooker environment of the Florida championships, Kristina Kraskov crafts an entertaining and wholesome observational feature documentary. Suspenseful and heart-warming, Spreadsheet Champions captures the challenge of performing at an elite level while also navigating the volatile, identity-forming time of adolescence. A documentary about the biggest competition you've never heard of … yet! Six young people from around the globe channel their dreams into a competition with a difference – a test of their elite mastery of Microsoft Excel.

Director Kristina Kraskov

Recommended for ages 12 - 17.