In celebration of SLAM’s thirtieth anniversary, we’re hyped to announce the first-ever movie competition solely targeted on basketball.
RTG Options have partnered with Heartland Movie to launch the primary annual occasion, which is able to happen February 16-18, 2024 at Dwelling Room Theaters in Indianapolis. There might be a mixture of world premiere titles, latest competition circuit favorites and iconic movies.
Along with screenings and post-screening Q&As, the competition may also function panel conversations with filmmakers, player-owned manufacturing firms, and community executives within the sports activities movie and documentary area. ESPN Movies, celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of their award-winning 30 for 30 collection this yr, joins the competition as a Supporting Sponsor and can host a must-see dialog trying again on the basketball documentaries they’ve produced.
Take a look at the total lineup beneath.
Above the Rim
In New York Metropolis, the place hundreds of youngsters compete for only a few possibilities to play skilled basketball—and the celebrity and cash that include it—one gifted younger man should select between a scholarship to varsity and speedy wealth on this drama set on the blacktop courts of Harlem.
Profitable Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
Reggie Miller single-handedly crushed the hearts of Knick followers a number of occasions. However it was the 1995 Japanese Convention Semifinals that solidified Miller as Public Enemy #1 in New York Metropolis.
Hoop Desires
Two atypical inner-city Chicago children dare to achieve for the unimaginable—skilled basketball glory—on this epic chronicle of hope and religion. Filmed over a five-year interval, Hoop Desires follows younger Arthur Agee and William Gates and their households because the boys navigate the complicated, aggressive world of scholastic athletics, whereas coping with the extraordinary pressures of their dwelling lives and neighborhoods.
Director Steve James and movie topics Arthur Agee and William Gates be a part of us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Amongst the Timber
Amongst the Timber follows an upstart males’s basketball program at Copper Mountain School—a tiny neighborhood faculty in the course of the Mojave Desert in Joshua Tree, California—through the remaining week of their season. In simply its second yr of the workforce’s existence, the movie drops viewers immediately into the motion because the Combating Cacti make one final push for the playoffs.
Govt Producer Paul George and director/producer Jack Jensen be a part of us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot
In 2006, the highest 24 highschool basketball gamers within the nation descended on Harlem’s Rucker Park to compete within the first annual Elite 24. Gunnin’ For That #1 Spot follows eight of these gamers as they showcase their expertise on the most legendary playground on the planet.
The Syd & TP Present
World Champions and bench warming besties Sydney Colson and Theresa Plaisance are decided to develop into the faces of the WNBA, regardless of the very fact nobody requested them to. This buddy comedy collection follows Syd and TP on their quest to develop into probably the most well-known basketball gamers on earth via a mixture of stunts, interviews, hijinks and an entire lack of disgrace.
This 90-min occasion will function Syd and TP doing a standup routine, screening the pilot episode and a reel of the funniest sketches from their collection, and a panel dialog and Q&A. This occasion may also be filmed for Season 2 of “The Syd + TP Present” so costume to impress! By buying a ticket and/or being current on the occasion you might be consenting to be filmed for “The Syd + TP Present.”
Excellent in ’76
Revisit the journey of the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers and their famend coach Bobby Knight who led the workforce to an ideal season of 32-0 and a nationwide championship.
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Stephen Curry’s former Davidson teammate, Jason Richards, joins us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Candace Parker: Unapologetic
A large-ranging, revealing, and infrequently intimate portrait of WNBA participant Candace Parker, one of the vital transcendent girls’s sports activities stars in historical past.
Candace Parker joins us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
D. Wade: Life Sudden
For a decade, Dwyane Wade intimately documented his life and profession with a movie crew. The result’s a remarkably candid portrait of one of many biggest NBA gamers of all time.
Blue Chips
Championship-winning coach Pete Bell runs the cleanest program in faculty basketball. However when he finds himself on the point of his first dropping season, Bell decides he should make a dangerous commerce to guard his job: under-the-table {dollars} for expertise.
Shattered Glass: A WNBPA Story
This trailblazing documentary is an exhilarating journey into the center {of professional} girls’s basketball, spotlighting the extraordinary lives, resilience, and triumphant achievements of WNBA MVPs Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones, Nneka Ogwumike, and Sheryl Swoopes.
Director/producer Andrea Buccilla and WNBPA Govt Director Terri Carmichael Jackson be a part of us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Deal with With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew
Deal with With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of The Notic, an upstart streetball collective from Canada within the early 2000s. Whereas their inventive basketball strikes introduced them world fame as youngsters, it set them at odds with the established order in a battle involving self-expression, race and rejection. Pushed by a twenty-year quest to complete their mixtape trilogy, the documentary charts how the group of mates from Vancouver performed outdoors the confines of the NBA but nonetheless left an indelible imprint on the sport without end.
Administrators Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux and Kirk Thomas be a part of us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Chang Can Dunk
Chang Can Dunk follows Chang, a 16-year-old, Asian American highschool scholar within the marching band, who bets the varsity basketball star that he can dunk by Homecoming.
Author/director Jingyi Shao and members of the solid be a part of us for a particular post-screening panel and Q&A.
Recreation Change Recreation
Recreation Change Recreation tells the story of a tumultuous basketball season tormented by as soon as unimaginable circumstances.
