Unhoused Brooklyn runners Tai, Rainn, and Brooke Sheppard being invited on “The View” to celebrate Sports Illustrated Kids’ recent decision to name them 2016’s SportsKids of the Year, and — in an on-air shock to the siblings and their single mother Tonia Handy alike — receiving the keys to a fully furnished Bed-Stuy apartment courtesy of Tyler Perry, who’s paid for them to live there for the next two years.
The dash of context that follows makes it clear that the Sheppards have already survived a marathon to get to this moment, and that directors Tone Grøttjord-Glenne and Corinne van der Borch could have made an exultant (if harrowing) film about the unique hurdles these girls cleared on their way to becoming unlikely track stars.
But this movie isn’t about that part of their lives, perhaps because Grøttjord-Glenne and van der Borch weren’t there to film it. Instead, they...
The dash of context that follows makes it clear that the Sheppards have already survived a marathon to get to this moment, and that directors Tone Grøttjord-Glenne and Corinne van der Borch could have made an exultant (if harrowing) film about the unique hurdles these girls cleared on their way to becoming unlikely track stars.
But this movie isn’t about that part of their lives, perhaps because Grøttjord-Glenne and van der Borch weren’t there to film it. Instead, they...
- 6/22/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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