Currently in theatres and coming to VOD tomorrow, Tuesday, November 12: MEDORA
Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart’s high school basketball underdog story made its debut earlier this year at SXSW. It went on to screen at Sarasota, Full Frame, Woods Hole, Sidewalk, Raindance, and Woodstock, among others. The doc opened in NYC and LA last weekend, and expands to several other cities this Friday and through the end of the year. FilmBuff makes the film available via iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Vudu, PlayStation, and XBOX.
Indiana is famed for its obsession with basketball, but in smalltown Medora, the sport, like the town, has seen better days, as demonstrated in Cohn and Rothbart’s appealing microcosmic study. Once again, the Medora Hornets are well on their way to another winless high school season. As varsity players are profiled over the course of the year, it’s clear that victory on the court represents so much more than a game for not only these charismatic young underdogs, but also for their struggling community. Like its thematic antecedent, UNDEFEATED, the doc uses high school athletics to reveal a larger story – here about the recession and its impact on smalltown communities – rather than simply being content with telling a story about winning and losing a game.
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