Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A look back at how a basketball documentary inspired a new generation of filmmakers The director Steve James hit hurdle after ...

Hoop Dreams is considered by many to be the best sports documentary ever made. Steve James’s 1994 film followed two high school basketball players, William Gates and Arthur Agee, who aspired to break ...

The Emmy winner’s Hillman Grad banner was previously housed at Amazon. By Lesley Goldberg Television Editor, West Coast As part of the move to WBTV, where Waithe will develop and produce new TV fare ...

Lena Waithe and her Hillman Grad Productions company previously signed a multi-year deal with Warner Bros. Television Group to create exclusive shows for "all platforms, including WarnerMedia’s HBO ...

Hoop Dreams (1994) is a captivating American sports-documentary drama film. Directed by Steve James, the film gives viewers a glimpse into the engaging journey of two African-American friends who hone ...

Lena Waithe is developing a scripted series based on the acclaimed documentary “Hoop Dreams” for Warner Bros. TV. “Hoop Dreams” is based on the real-life stories of high school basketball stars Arthur ...

If there’s a sport worth obsessing over, it’s basketball. What a beautiful game: shoes squeaking across shiny hardwood floors, the swish of the net when a perfect shot whips through, a contest that ...

William Gates, with a little gray in his beard these days, is now 41 and a father of four. Yet he's still remembered for who he was in high school. He sits in the second-to-last row of the bleachers ...

…are made to be broken, as Arthur Agee and William Gates learned the hard way over the five years their lives on and off the court were filmed. Stars: William Gates, Arthur Agee Director: Steve James ...

“I would wake up reaching my hands up to catch a pass,” Steve Kerr recalls. His playing days are long gone, but that memory remains. His training so embedded itself in Kerr’s psyche that it seeped ...

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The last time I was in a documentary it was 2006 and I was a senior at Marshall High School in Chicago. Arthur Agee, one of the stars of “Hoop Dreams,” asked if he could follow me around and film a ...