KEVIN GARNETT: ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE (SHOWTIME, 2021)
This bold new documentary will chronicle Garnett’s life, on-and-off-the-court legacy and unprecedented journey from teenage basketball phenom to game-changing superstar as well as the lasting effect his actions had on the NBA and the cultural conversation surrounding it. More than the film’s subject, Garnett will guide the narrative as he interviews the legends that he shared the court with and his closest confidants to paint a vivid and deeply personal picture of his 25-year journey. At the core is Garnett’s lasting impressing on the league and culture, disrupting an industry and opening new doors for an entire generation of athletes.
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THE LEGEND OF SWEE' PEA (2020)
A "mystical understanding of the game" made Lloyd "Swee' Pea" Daniels a New York City basketball legend by the age of 16. Christened the "next Magic Johnson", his career effectively ended at age 21 after being shot three times in the chest after a tussle over $8 of cocaine. The Legend of Swee' Pea follows the twists and turns of fortune in the life of a basketball prodigy: his dramatic downfall, miraculous comeback, and, finally, the bittersweet confrontation with a life imperfectly lived.
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ONE NATION UNDER STRESS (HBO, 2019)
One Nation Under Stress follows Dr. Sanjay Gupta as he sets out to discover the link between the CDC’s reports of declining life expectancy and an increasingly stressed America.
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CLASS DIVIDE (HBO, 2016)
A look at NYC’s gentrification and growing inequality in a microcosm, Class Divide explores two distinct worlds that share the same Chelsea intersection – 10th Avenue and 26th Street. On one side of the avenue, the Chelsea-Elliot Houses have provided low-income public housing to residents for decades. Their neighbor across the avenue since 2012 is Avenues: The World School, a costly private school. What happens when kids from both of these worlds attempt to cross the divide?
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HOUSES (2016)
The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy becomes a metaphoric backdrop for a floundering playwright as he navigates friendships, family and creative angst in the weeks before opening night. Starring Nick Sandow, Michael Imperioli and John Ventimiglia.
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LOVE CHILD 사이버 사랑 (HBO, 2014)
LOVE CHILD is a documentary film about Internet policy development. Centered in South Korea - the world's most wired nation - the film follows the story of the first case where "Internet addiction" was cited as a mental illness defense and looks at today's Korean gaming culture in search of harmony in an increasingly immersive media environment, where virtual is the new reality. LOVE CHILD premiered at Sundance, 2014.
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HARD TIMES: LOST ON LONG ISLAND (HBO, 2012)
Located on Long Island, the birthplace of the post-war suburban American Dream, this documentary follows the story of the long-term unemployed and the shrinking of the middle class by chronicling the lives of four families. Starting in the Summer of 2010, which was supposed to be the summer of recovery, and continuing through the holiday season six months later, we witness the growing difficulties and despair as these people search in vain for employment while their plight and pain are too often invisible to the political and media elite.
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Blowback Productions
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PRAYER FOR A PERFECT SEASON (HBO, 2011)
is a gripping account of the 2010-11 boys’ basketball season at St. Patrick High School, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of Elizabeth, NJ. This feature-length documentary chronicles the extraordinary effort of coach Kevin Boyle and his players, whose journey ends in a winner-take-all showdown for the mythical national championship with archrival St. Anthony of Jersey City.
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Blowback Productions
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DIRTY OLD TOWN (2010)
The Bowery becomes a nexus of shattered dreams when a merchant has 72 hours to pay his rent. Facing extinction, his ramshackle tent of antiquities lures a troop of misfits, freaks and renegades who form a tableaux vivant full of carnival pageantry, white lies and victimless crime in a fleeting glimpse of Downtown New York.
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THIS IS JIM JONES (SONY, 2009)
is an in-depth look at the controversial rapper that exposes a side of Jones few fans have ever seen. Through interviews with Jones and influential people in his life, career, and the music industry in general, the documentary takes the viewer on a journey through Jim’s life: Growing up in the streets of Harlem, his relationships with the people who influenced him as an artist, and the triumphs and failures that have brought him to this moment in his career. He stands poised to reach the next level of stardom and attain mainstream success, but is the world ready?
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CAPTURED (2008)
Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City's Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he's recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.
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