Queen of Basketball
The Queen of Basketball
All screenings of THE QUEEN OF BASKETBALL are free. Tickets will be given away at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis beginning 15 minutes before show-time, one ticket per person.
Lusia Harris — a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics, and was one of the first two women inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. As a child growing up in rural Mississippi, Lusia “Lucy” Harris often stayed up past her bedtime watching her favorite N.B.A. players, dreaming of one day playing on the same courts. Reaching 6 feet 3 inches by the time she was in high school, Harris was often called “long and tall and that’s all” by her classmates — but she knew her height would be an asset on the court. And she wasn’t just tall enough to play the game. She was a rare talent who would go on to be a three-time national college champion and an Olympic silver medalist, making her a national sensation by the time she finished her college career.
For an electrifying young basketball player on the national stage, success often comes with a lucrative professional contract and brand deals — but Harris’s moment came in the 1970s, decades before the W.N.B.A. was founded, when few opportunities were available to female athletes interested in pursuing a professional career. In Ben Proudfoot's "The Queen of Basketball," Harris tells the story of what happens when an unstoppable talent runs out of games to win.
Long live The Queen!
Lusia Harris — a pioneering athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s, made history as the first woman to score a basket in the Olympics, and was one of the first two women inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. As a child growing up in rural Mississippi, Lusia “Lucy” Harris often stayed up past her bedtime watching her favorite N.B.A. players, dreaming of one day playing on the same courts. Reaching 6 feet 3 inches by the time she was in high school, Harris was often called “long and tall and that’s all” by her classmates — but she knew her height would be an asset on the court. And she wasn’t just tall enough to play the game. She was a rare talent who would go on to be a three-time national college champion and an Olympic silver medalist, making her a national sensation by the time she finished her college career.
For an electrifying young basketball player on the national stage, success often comes with a lucrative professional contract and brand deals — but Harris’s moment came in the 1970s, decades before the W.N.B.A. was founded, when few opportunities were available to female athletes interested in pursuing a professional career. In Ben Proudfoot's "The Queen of Basketball," Harris tells the story of what happens when an unstoppable talent runs out of games to win.
Long live The Queen!
Genre
Documentary,
African-American Experience,
Sport,
Women and Film,
Short
Runtime
26
Language
English
Director
Ben Proudfoot
Played at
Glendale 1.29.22 - 1.30.22
Playhouse 7 1.29.22 - 1.30.22
Monica Film Center 1.29.22 - 1.30.22
Town Center 5 1.29.22 - 1.30.22
NoHo 7 1.29.22 - 1.30.22
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