Hoop Dreams - videos, teasers and stills from filming

All videos, teasers and footage from the filming of the film "Hoop Dreams"

Hoop Dreams (1994)

Timing: 2:54 (174 min)

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All about film

Video 1

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Actors and characters

Three Reasons: Hoop Dreams

English

1:56

What's left behind the scenes

Initially, the director planned to shoot a 30-minute documentary film commissioned by the Public Broadcasting Service (a non-commercial television broadcasting service in the USA). However, over 5 years of filming, 250 hours of footage was collected. This resulted in a film with a runtime of 170 minutes.
St. Joseph School in Illinois filed a lawsuit seeking to ban the film's distribution, but after negotiations, the parties signed a settlement agreement.
Many of the locations where filming took place have since changed beyond recognition. The Cabrini-Green public housing complex, where one of the film's subjects lived, was "revitalized" shortly after the film was completed. Where a baseball field once stood, expensive apartments and a shopping center were built. The last building in Cabrini-Green was demolished in May 2011.
According to film critic and television host Roger Ebert (1942-2013), when this film was not nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category, he and his close friend Gene Siskel (1956-1999) decided to find out how documentaries were nominated for an Oscar. It turns out that when watching documentary films, members of the relevant committee have flashlights with them, and when a film is clearly disliked, they must shine the light on the screen. The film screening is stopped if a majority of committee members signal their disapproval in this way. This particular film had to be stopped just 15 minutes after the beginning of the screening.

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