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Hoop Dreams Year: 1994 Director: Steve James Seldom has a film, narrative or documentary, so probingly explored the American Dream.

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The 33 - year - old is vastly experienced having played over 250 times for Inter Milan and 64 times for his country and, although he is not the biggest, he will bring an air of calm assurance to the Hoops» that Rob Green can only dream of.

Five years after fleeing war - torn Sudan, shot - blocking sensation Deng Gai is close to fulfilling his hoop dream

Co-Captains Joe «the Dream» Hakimian and Benny «the Jet» Lalez had their guys pick up right where they left off last year winning their first Hoops game against the Rookie Team Zimmerman (Crystal Lake Jeep) by 17.

The Hoops & Dreams Project is entering its 13th year, and this signature event as witnessed by Director of the Youth Bureau Kevin Green was positive, professional, and offered more than just basketball.

Like last year's «Hoop Dreams,» this documentary does justice to a great subject.

Pegged by some as this generation's «Hoop Dreams,» this nonfiction film documents the senior year of a girls» high - school step dance team set against the background of inner - city Baltimore, as each member tries to become the first in their families to attend college.

Ebert tweeted this morning that his memoir, «Life Itself,» which was published last year, and recently hit as a paperback, «has been optioned for a doc by Steve James («Hoop Dreams «-RRB- and Steven Zaillian, with Martin Scorsese as exec producer» And Ebert has expanded on the news a little, telling Matt Singer at Criticwire «This dropped out of the blue.

The director of acclaimed sports doc Hoop Dreams spends a year with Chicago's «Violence Interrupters», a group of reformed criminals who try to defuse situations before they escalate.

Filmed over a five - year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighborhoods.

The ceremony will be hosted, for the third consecutive year, by award - winning nonfiction filmmaker Steve James (The Interrupters, Life Itself, Hoop Dreams), who is a Cinema Eye nominee this year for his latest film, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.

Based on Roger's 2011 memoir and directed by Hoop Dreams» Steve James, the film traces the outspoken film critic's professional and personal journey from Pulitzer Prize - winning writer at the Chicago Sun - Times to his rise as a beloved TV movie reviewer alongside Gene Siskel and, ultimately, to his 11 - year battle with thyroid cancer, which ended in April when he died at age 70.

Ball Don't Lie (Unrated) Hoop dreams drama about a 17 year - old white kid (Grayson Boucher) raised in the «hood by a prostitute (Rosanna Arquette) whose only hope of escaping the ghetto rests with making it to the NBA with the help of his cute girlfriend (Kim Hidalgo).

In years past, «Hoop Dreams» and «Crumb» were also not nominated.

My impression of Hoop Dreams has changed in some ways since I first saw it on VHS nearly twenty years ago.

Directed by Oscar - nominee Steve James (Hoop Dreams), The Interrupters is a riveting documentary which chronicles the efforts of several intrepid community organizers over the course of a year, including Ameena Mathews, Tio Hardiman and Cobe Williams.

Along with the basketball marketing company Hoop Connection, the thirty - seven - year - old Agee will visit cities from Sacramento to Orlando to find young people eighteen or older who aspire to play basketball and help them realize their own dreams.

The essential Kartemquin Films («Hoop Dreams») pops up twice this year at Sundance in two different forms but with works that both capture the company's deep humanism.

The Editing Branch, meanwhile, seemed to anticipate the outrage, and made sure that Hoop Dreams wouldn't go unrecognized; which means that James» lone nomination before this year was for, of all things, Best Editing.

Several restoration projects over the years have included Paris Is Burning, Desert Hearts, Hoop Dreams, and River of Grass.