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Glenn Kaino, USA 2024
A guy walks into a gym (not a bar…ha ha ha) dressed in a suit. He asks the men (street athletes otherwise known as a sandlot group) who were playing basketball if he could join the game. They all laughed because of the way he was dressed, and they said, “No!” They didn’t take him seriously, but when he kept asking, they relented and allowed the city slicker to join them. In disbelief, the men were in awe of his left-handed lay-up shots consistently making point after point.
The guy was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a young, unknown pastor that lived a few blocks from the Butler YMCA in Atlanta, the only gym in town for Black people. Friendships formed for life that day. The basketball sandlot group became some of Martin’s closest friends and allies in the Civil Rights Movement.
Ambassador Andrew Young, one of those lucky men to know Martin well, shares first-hand personal stories in HOOPS, HOPES & DREAMS, of a different side of Martin that the larger public would have rarely seen. Martin’s quick wit and sense of humor were even more endearing than his unique basketball skill, not to mention his ability to preach the gospel. Martin and the sandlot group were immensely influential in a community needing to find life’s joys in HOOPS, HOPE & DREAMS.
Kaino captures a delightful side of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. using complimentary archival footage, cool animation, and interviews with renowned people of today, who were influenced under the tutelage surrounding basketball, the joys of ethnic heritage, and the historical Civil Rights Movement and their activists. A film that will bring a smile to your face and one not to be missed.
