Now in production in Memphis, the feature film "Hoop Street" is about a hot-headed high-school basketball player working to take his game to the next level — to greater acclaim and to a larger ...
The short film "Hoops, Hopes & Dreams," which explores how MLK Jr. and Barack Obama used basketball as a unifier, premieres ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. With his 1995 film ‘Hoop Dreams,’ documentary filmmaker Steve James ...
In every activist movement since the beginning of recorded history, leaders have had to recruit followers to join their movement. In the 1960’s civil rights movement, this strategy led Dr. Martin ...
If there’s a sport worth obsessing over, it’s basketball. What a beautiful game: shoes squeaking across shiny hardwood floors, the swish of the net when a perfect shot whips through, a contest that ...
Artist and filmmaker Glenn Kaino first heard about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s basketball prowess while he was eating dinner. Kaino is a longtime collaborator of Tommie Smith, the gold medal-winning ...
Who knew that one of the most important figures in U.S. history had a seriously mean backhand on the basketball court? Glenn Kaino's documentary Hoops, Hopes & Dreams follows the untold story of Dr.
EXCLUSIVE: RTG Features, the sister studio to basketball media company Slam, is partnering with arts organization Heartland Film to launch the first annual Slam Film Festival dedicated to ...