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Mr. Chibbs
Logline: NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson is in a mid-life crisis, grappling with his identity and coming to terms with his past and he searches for relevancy in his future.
Elevator Pitch:
This is not your typical basketball documentary. Like Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” we follow Kenny as he travels back to people and places of his past witnessing him reconciling the good with the evil. What happens to a sports superstar once their talent has left them, and they are forced to confront who they will be for the rest of their lives. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends,...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Mr. Chibbs
Logline: NBA All-Star Kenny Anderson is in a mid-life crisis, grappling with his identity and coming to terms with his past and he searches for relevancy in his future.
Elevator Pitch:
This is not your typical basketball documentary. Like Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” we follow Kenny as he travels back to people and places of his past witnessing him reconciling the good with the evil. What happens to a sports superstar once their talent has left them, and they are forced to confront who they will be for the rest of their lives. “Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends,...
- 9/1/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Dancing Across Borders is a well-intended documentary about a 16-year-old boy named Sokvannara .Sy. Sar. He.s a talented folk dancer in Cambodia where he.s .discovered. by Anne Bass, a vacationing socialite who.s profoundly impressed with his amazing charm and grace as a dancer. Bass takes him under her wealthy wing and pulls some strings to get him enrolled at the New York School of American Ballet with some of this country.s best instructors. The film charts Sy.s progress through the demanding rituals of classical ballet as he devotes himself to learning this strange new dance (he.d never even seen ballet before he left home). Sy is indeed a charismatic subject, gifted performer, and natural showman but unfortunately Ms Bass, whose Dancing Across Borders is her debut as a film director, has failed to make a movie that will be appreciated by an audience wider...
- 6/4/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Rating: 3.0/5.0
Chicago – It’s rather serendipitous that the new film “Dancing Across Borders” will have it’s Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center, which is literally around the corner from the Oriental Theater’s production of “Billy Elliot.” The true-life story in “Borders” has some striking similarities to that of the wildly hyped musical, since they both center on a young man whose passion for dance allows him to overcome the limitations of his underprivileged upbringing.
On the surface, “Borders” seems like a straightforward vehicle for inspirational uplift. Sokvannara “Sy” Sar was a 16-year-old boy in Siem Reap, Cambodia, when he was discovered by Anne Bass, a visiting socialite and arts patron from the United States. Since age 9, Sar had always been driven to dance, despite the reservations of his parents, and found time to study at the local dance school in between chores. When Bass saw Sar...
Chicago – It’s rather serendipitous that the new film “Dancing Across Borders” will have it’s Chicago premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center, which is literally around the corner from the Oriental Theater’s production of “Billy Elliot.” The true-life story in “Borders” has some striking similarities to that of the wildly hyped musical, since they both center on a young man whose passion for dance allows him to overcome the limitations of his underprivileged upbringing.
On the surface, “Borders” seems like a straightforward vehicle for inspirational uplift. Sokvannara “Sy” Sar was a 16-year-old boy in Siem Reap, Cambodia, when he was discovered by Anne Bass, a visiting socialite and arts patron from the United States. Since age 9, Sar had always been driven to dance, despite the reservations of his parents, and found time to study at the local dance school in between chores. When Bass saw Sar...
- 4/17/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Anne Bass, the New York City socialite known for her philanthropic endeavors in the ballet world, visited Cambodia on a World Monuments Fund trip in 2000. In Angkor Wat she saw a group of teenagers present a native dance and couldn't shake the performance of one of the boys from her memory. Dancing Across Borders is the Cinderella-esque documentary film Bass made about her efforts to sponsor the teenager, Sokvannara Sar (also known as "Sy," pronounced "See"), to come to the United States to learn ballet. In the process, Sy realizes the American Dream he didn't even know he had until his and Anne's paths crossed. Bass was as unacquainted with filmmaking as Sy was with ballet (he had never seen so much as an image of a ballet dancer before), and the film is even more compelling when you realize it's about two debuts, both on and off camera. In it,...
- 3/26/2010
- Vanity Fair
There's an interesting battle shaping up at the box office this weekend as Alice in Wonderland faces a serious threat from the DreamWorks animated film How to Train Your Dragon, a movie being hailed as the next film to truly use 3-D in unique ways and currently sitting at a staggering 95% on Rotten Tomatoes [1]. Meanwhile, Hot Tub Time Machine has been building some good buzz from a number of early advance screenings and is hoping to be a surprise hit as well. In limited release, we also have the Disney documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, Atom Egoyan's Chloe, and the crime flick Ca$h starring Sean Bean and Chris Hemsworth. Will you be checking out any new movies this weekend? How to Train Your Dragon [2] Hot Tub Time Machine [3] Chloe [4] (limited) Ca$h [5] (limited) Waking Sleeping Beauty [6] (limited) Dancing Across Borders [7] (limited) The Eclipse [8] (limited) Godspeed [9] (limited) Bluebeard [10] (limited) [1] http://www.
- 3/26/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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