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Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
Savannah Walker's fear of speaking publicly in poetry class leads her to steal her mother's magical golden hoops, believing that they'll help her overcome her fear.
Hoop Dreams 4Ever is the final film in an amateur film trilogy that borrows its name from the critically acclaimed Hoop Dreams. It follows a group of 6 boys navigating their final year of high school, while playing basketball along the way.
After the success of the fourth and final film in the Hoop Dreams tetralogy, the studios sought to cash in at the most wonderful time of the year with The Hoop Dreams Holiday Special. The holiday spirit is encapsulated through the festive antics of stars Owen Craig, Ben Handwerker, Matt Christian, Jackson Gagliardi, and special guest Holden Altman.
This is the story of a dream: The big dream of Roger and Chevy, two life long friends who want to form a basketball team and compete in the First Annual Venice Beach Basketball Tournament, in California. The little detail is that Roger and Chevy, as well as their friends Nick and George, are dwarfs!!!
Matt has left for vacation. What will Owen and Jackson get up to in his driveway...?
This forty-minute program was produced by the Criterion Collection in 2014
A documentary covering the 2013 Gathering of the Juggalos in Cave-In-Rock, IL.
A mockumentary about a 25-year-old man who drops everything to embark on a quixotic journey to achieve his dream of playing in the NBA.
After developing a taste for acting while on camera during his self-produced documentary Hoop Dreams 2 (link below), Liam Klinkenberg reunites with the film's director, his friend Eytan, and they set out to make another documentary following his new pursuit.
Directed by Harvey Hubbell V, this small-scale documentary offers an insider's look at what it's really like to make a movie on a shoestring budget, focusing on the cast and crew of a thriller called BlackMale (2000). But perhaps more interesting than the film's plot -- which follows a pair of con men who try to blackmail a doctor they believe to be a serial killer -- is the behind-the-scenes drama Hubbell captures.
A talented team of basketball players made up of little people enters a tournament to help a teammate's son go to college.
Three friends return from a vacation and discover that the TV studio they work for has gone bankrupt - so they decide to start their own costume renting business.