When was hoop dreams filmed

Basketball Wiki Explore. Main Page All Pages Community. Top Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Hoop Dreams. View source. History Talk 0. Categories Movies. Lucy Walker saw Hoop Dreams while at film school at New York University and was similarly taken by both its unprecedented access to its subjects and its narrative concision. In particular, she learned from the way James poignantly captured small moments, like a mother icing a birthday cake, through carefully choreographing his shots and establishing a high level of trust with his subjects.

Hoop Dreams was not originally intended to be a movie. James and producers Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert initially envisioned the project as a half-hour special on public television. Hoop Dreams altered the finances of documentaries in another key way: It was one of the first feature films to be shot on video as opposed to film. And though James, Gilbert and Marx shot the film from the perspective of basketball obsessives, the film ran much deeper than its primary subject matter, delving into issues of race, class, family and addiction.

The ESPN series 30 for 30 has generated over documentaries exploring sports and culture around the world. Bing Liu was a young child when Hoop Dreams was released. Liu was also reassured by the fact that Hoop Dreams was shot on video, given that he was in the midst of shooting his own film, Minding the Gap, on video. The film uses a sport, skateboarding, as an entry point to explore the agonies and joys of young men growing up impoverished in America.

Liu recalled his many conversations with James about the ethics of who gets to tell a story and the foremost importance of forming collaborative relationships with subjects. For other filmmakers, Hoop Dreams set a gold standard that could be both complicated and challenged.

Sign In. Play trailer Documentary Drama Sport. Director Steve James. Steve James Frederick Marx. Top credits Director Steve James. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Hoop Dreams. Photos Top cast Edit. William Gates Self as Self. Arthur Agee Self as Self. Steve James. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. This documentary follows two young African-Americans through their high school years as they perfect their skills in basketball in the hopes of getting a college scholarship and eventually play in the NBA.

Arthur Agee and William Gates both show great potential and are are actively recruited as they look to enter high school. They start off at the same high school but unable to pay an unexpected bill for tuition fees, Arthur has to withdraw and go to the local public high school. The film follows them through their four years of high school and their trials and tribulations: injuries, slumps and the never ending battle to maintain their grades. Through it all, their hoop dreams continue.

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