Red River Theatres in Concord will hold a special screening for an award-winning baseball movie called “Eephus,” directed by Nashua native Carson Lund, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The venue will host a preshow event and a post-film Q&A with the filmmakers and Boston Red Sox legend Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a cast member.

The movie, set in the 1990s in Massachusetts, is about two rec league teams facing off for the last time on their small-town baseball field as construction looms over it. The name of the movie, “Eephus,” comes from a specialty pitch that’s not used often nowadays – a slow, high-arcing, off-speed pitch that catches the batter off-guard.

“I think the film itself is doing something like what that pitch is doing strategically. Which is to say it’s a very offbeat baseball movie, and I think it basically asks the audience to slow down and appreciate the passing moment and hang out with these people that I think are such interesting characters without the expectation that something really momentous is going to happen,” Lund said. “This is a film about a final game played on a field. Everyone’s going through a certain sort of revelation for themselves having to come to terms with the loss of this ritual that they all have.”

Lund co-wrote the movie with another Nashua native, Michael Basta, and he said that they were inspired by their experiences of playing baseball around New Hampshire, the local characters they encountered and the rec league culture of New England. Lund’s father played in one, and he originally intended to capture those experiences exactly by setting the movie in New Hampshire, but the film ended up being shot in Douglas, Mass.

Lund said baseball as very poetic and social, adding that the movie is about baseball in its purest form. He hopes that people think about the parts of baseball that have been lost in the new era of the sport with a faster pace and new tech, but he also does not expect his movie to “save” the sport.

“I was always playing on teams in New England and traveling leagues and everything. One thing I very fondly remember was fall ball, playing as the leaves started to fall. It was getting colder and there was something really precious about that, because you knew it was fleeting, because the winter was coming. It’s always a long winter and you’re kind of waiting for baseball to restart, so I wanted to capture that. It’s got a bittersweet feeling.”

The characters in the film exemplify classic baseball player archetypes, almost cartoonish depictions of the type of players one would find at the nearest baseball field. Some were based on real people Lund grew up around, but all the characters grew into their own as the movie was written.

Many of these characters are portrayed by renowned actors and personalities, such as the one played by Bill Lee or Keith William Richards, who acted in Netflix’s “Uncut Gems.”

The film is well-rated on platforms such as Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB and has been screened around the world, from the New Hampshire Film Festival to the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a nomination for Best Feature Film. It’s coming back home to New Hampshire for this special event at Red River for all to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of rec league fall baseball.

Alexander Rapp can be reached at arapp@cmonitor.com.