Feb 17, 2017
Catherine Allan & Gerald Richman Accepting the 1995 Peabody Award for “Hoop Dreams”
Nearly ten years ago, film makers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert began documenting life on an around Chicago’s playground basketball courts. Their camera focused on William Gates and Arthur Agee, two schoolboy athletes whose dreams of paying in the National Basketball Association collided with academics, family life, economic hardship and injury. The issues addressed in the film include teen and single parenting, the lure of drugs and violence, the importance of self-motivation and self-acceptance, and the conflict between athletic and academic performance.
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/hoop-dreams