Kickstart This: Football Doc ‘Konkussion Stories’ About NFL Injuries

Welcome back to another edition of Kickstart This, FirstShowing’s weekly column dedicated to spreading the word about indie projects around the world that need your help to become a reality. This week, we’re featuring Konkussion Stories, a documentary that explores injuries that pro football players experience and are sometimes forced to deal with for years after they’ve retired. It’s hailed as a documentary “for the players, by the players” and hopes to shed some light on a topic that the NFL would much rather ignore. Take a look, sound off in the comments, and don’t forget to toss these filmmakers a few bucks if you can. The National Football League is obviously a gigantic business, generating around $9 billion annually, so from the league’s standpoint, they’ll do just about anything to keep their star players on the field so they can keep dazzling audiences left and right. But when injuries rear …