''NBA Films for Fans'' is a Canadian short film anthology, which premiered in 2021. Funded by the

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to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first-ever

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game between the

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and the

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in 1946, the project commissioned five emerging Canadian black, indigenous and people of colour filmmakers to create short documentary films about basketball.Rick Mele
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'', September 21, 2021. The only rules that the filmmakers were given were that the film could be no longer than seven minutes and 50 seconds in length, and that it had to incorporate footage from the NBA archives. The films premiered on September 17, 2021, as a special event at the

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."NBA Films for Fans created with OLG: Previewing the five films set to premiere at TIFF 2021"
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'', September 17, 2021. They were subsequently released to the web on a dedicated free online streaming platform.

Films

* "Born Identities" —

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: The history of the creation of the

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and

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logos in 1995. * "Inheritance" — Shawn Gerrard: An exploration of the love of basketball as a bonding experience in families. * "Shorty" — Romeo Candido: A young girl who is discouraged when she realizes that she is the shortest person at her local basketball tryouts is inspired when her father tells her the history of several shorter players who have excelled in the NBA. * "The Shot" — S.M. Turrell:

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's Game 7

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shot in the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the

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. * "Draft Day" — Thyrone Tommy: Several Canadian NBA hopefuls await word about their futures on the day of the

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."NBA Films for Fans created with OLG: 'Draft Day' by Thyrone Tommy"
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'', September 17, 2021.

References

External links

* 2021 films 2021 short documentary films Canadian short documentary films Canadian basketball films Canadian sports documentary films Canadian anthology films Black Canadian films Documentary films about basketball 2020s Canadian films {{2020s-Canada-documentary-film-stub

Films

See also

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