The Basketball Game by Hart Snider

The Basketball Game by Hart Snider

Healing wounds and changing worldviews, all though a simple game of basketball. Nine-year-old Hart is attending Jewish summer camp for the first time. As if that isn’t awkward enough, this summer the camp is going to play host to some very particular visitors, though the kids at camp don’t know that yet. What everyone else knows is that in a nearby small town, a teacher by the name of Jim Keegstra was criminally charged with hate crimes for spreading anti-Semitic views in his classroom, where he told his students that the holocaust was a hoax. To make matters worse, he’s also the nearby town’s mayor. To help combat the growing sense of dread in the Jewish community, the parents, elders and camp director decide that the best path forward is to invite the students taught by Keegstra to the summer camp for a day of fun and fellowship. What transpires in this comic-memoir by filmmaker Hart Snider is a basketball game for all-time. Adapted from the NFB’s short animation of the same name, The Basketball Game is a poignant tale of the power of communion and community as a means to rise above hatred and bigotry. In the end, as is recognized by the kids playing the basketball game, we’re all in this together.

Hart Snider is an Alberta-born film editor and writer. He has created two NFB autobiographical shorts, The Basketball Game and Shop Class. Hart lives in Vancouver and can usually be found either in an edit suite or at the park with his wife, Galit, his daughter, Leora, and their dog, Wolfie.

SKU	Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13	9780228103912
ISBN 10	0228103916
Titel	The Basketball Game
Autor	Hart Snider
Serie	National Film Board Of Canada
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Verlag	Firefly Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2022-10-24
Seitenanzahl	87
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.