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The Basketball Game
20115 min 8 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Hart Snider
Production: Yves J. MaTracey Friesen
Script: Hart Snider
In 1983, nine-year-old Hart attends Jewish summer camp for the first time,
while in a nearby Alberta town a social studies teacher makes headlines after
it’s discovered he’s been teaching anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. In the
aftermath, the teacher’s former students are invited to Hart’s camp for a
picnic and a basketball game. Hart and his campmates are both curious and
afraid of what awaits them on the basketball court.
Told from Hart’s perspective, The Basketball Game
fuses animation, documentary and personal memoir in a poignant and humorous
tale of hope and tolerance in the face of fear and stereotypes.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Sports and Leisure > Ball Games
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Discrimination
- Social Issues > Discrimination and Stereotyping
- Diversity > Diversity in CommunitiesIdentity
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Health/Personal Development > Healthy Relationships
Credits
- director
- Hart Snider
- writer
- Hart Snider
- editor
- Hart Snider
- producer
- Yves J. Ma
- animation
- Sean Covernton
- design
- Sean Covernton
- storyboard
- Sean Covernton
- original score
- Adam Damelin
- sound design
- Adam Damelin
- mix technician
- Peter Eliuk
- re-recording engineer
- Bill Sheppard
- post-production services
- Finale Editworks
- production coordinator
- Teri Snelgrove
- technical coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- production supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- marketing manager
- Julie Arseneault
- program administrator
- Janine Steele
- executive producer
- Tracey Friesen
Awards
- Audience Choice Award for Best ShortJewish Film Festival
- Youth Jury Award for Best AnimationAIFF Kids
- Junior Youth Jury Award for Most Inspirational Short FilmReel to Real International Film Festival for Youth and Families