Jackie Robinson West Little League Scandal Chronicled in ‘One Golden Summer’ Documentary (Exclusive)
The story of the 2014 Jackson Robinson West little league baseball team’s championship run and subsequent downfall will be chronicled in the feature-length documentary “One Golden Summer.”
The all-Black team from Chicago’s South Side defied expectations to win the U.S. Little League Championship, going on to face the baseball team from Seoul, South Korea, for the world title. Along the way, the team of 13 12-year-olds inspired their city and won millions of fans across the country, becoming heroic role models to Black youth. The Jackie Robinson West (Jrw) team was celebrated with a ticker tape parade in Chicago, national news coverage and a trip to the White House to meet President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
However, things took a turn when a rival coach accused Jackie Robinson West of breaking boundary rules. Though Jrw coaches and local officials denied any wrongdoing, and Little League International initially agreed,...
The all-Black team from Chicago’s South Side defied expectations to win the U.S. Little League Championship, going on to face the baseball team from Seoul, South Korea, for the world title. Along the way, the team of 13 12-year-olds inspired their city and won millions of fans across the country, becoming heroic role models to Black youth. The Jackie Robinson West (Jrw) team was celebrated with a ticker tape parade in Chicago, national news coverage and a trip to the White House to meet President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama.
However, things took a turn when a rival coach accused Jackie Robinson West of breaking boundary rules. Though Jrw coaches and local officials denied any wrongdoing, and Little League International initially agreed,...
- 1/25/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu has acquired the rights to Minding the Gap, Bing Liu’s Sundance Festival documentary about three young men who bond across racial lines to escape their volatile, Rust Belt family lives.
The film will be released as a Hulu Documentary both theatrically across key markets in the Us and on Hulu on August 17.
Bing Liu’s feature debut, shot in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, chronicles the lives and friendships of his skateboarding friends over the course of 12 years. As Hulu describes, the director “searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity.”
Among the film’s subjects is 23-year-old Zack, whose tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorates after the birth of their son, and 17-year-old Keire, struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. “While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera, his friends,...
The film will be released as a Hulu Documentary both theatrically across key markets in the Us and on Hulu on August 17.
Bing Liu’s feature debut, shot in his hometown of Rockford, Illinois, chronicles the lives and friendships of his skateboarding friends over the course of 12 years. As Hulu describes, the director “searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends’ turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern-day masculinity.”
Among the film’s subjects is 23-year-old Zack, whose tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend deteriorates after the birth of their son, and 17-year-old Keire, struggling with his racial identity as he faces new responsibilities following the death of his father. “While navigating a difficult relationship between his camera, his friends,...
- 6/5/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate retains international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to Participant Media’s first docuseries.
Source: Kartemquin Films
America To Me
Starz has acquired the unscripted 10-part docuseries America to Me from Participant Media and Steve James that premiered in part in Sundance.
Participant Media and Kartemquin Films produced the series – the first five episodes premiered in Park City in the Indie Episodic showcase – that focuses on the challenge of racial and educational inequalities facing American teenagers today.
The series follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of one year. The school is regarded as one of America’s most exemplary and diverse public schools.
Starz acquired all Us multiplatform pay-tv and Svod rights to the series. Lionsgate, which represents international rights to Participant’s feature film and select documentaries, will retain all international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to the series...
Source: Kartemquin Films
America To Me
Starz has acquired the unscripted 10-part docuseries America to Me from Participant Media and Steve James that premiered in part in Sundance.
Participant Media and Kartemquin Films produced the series – the first five episodes premiered in Park City in the Indie Episodic showcase – that focuses on the challenge of racial and educational inequalities facing American teenagers today.
The series follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of one year. The school is regarded as one of America’s most exemplary and diverse public schools.
Starz acquired all Us multiplatform pay-tv and Svod rights to the series. Lionsgate, which represents international rights to Participant’s feature film and select documentaries, will retain all international and Us distribution and home entertainment rights to the series...
- 1/22/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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