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FILE - Filmmaker and erstwhile nonrecreational hoops subordinate Deon Taylor, left, discusses the movie manufacture arsenic Las Vegas Raiders linebacker K'Lavon Chaisson, seated, and retired NFL subordinate Reginald Kahlil McKenzie look connected during a filmmaking store for NFL players connected Tuesday, March 4, 2025, successful Santa Monica, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)
Lights, camera, layup.
The NBA Summer League is giving athletes different changeable that takes spot down the camera. With assists from Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett and Hollywood powerfulness players Mark Wahlberg and Deon Taylor, the league is bringing backmost the NBA Summer League Film Festival starting July 17 successful Las Vegas.
The three-day festival volition bring big-screen storytelling done 34 selected projects, spotlighting stories produced by NBA stars past and contiguous including Nikola Jokic, Luguentz Dort, Tony Allen, Nate Robinson, Cole Anthony, Keyon Dooling and Udonis Haslem.
“We person a ton of NBA players who ain accumulation companies,” said Garnett, who won NBA title with the Boston Celtics. He co-founded the accumulation institution Content King Studios.
"So the SLFF is simply a large accidental to get unneurotic to stock our projects, springiness each different our flowers for doing the work, and supply an accidental to get projects financed and adjacent sold,” Garnett said.
The 2nd yearly movie festival volition instrumentality spot astatine the Strip View Pavilion wrong the Thomas & Mack Center, the longtime location of NBA Summer League, which was co-founded successful 2004 by Warren LeGarie and Albert Hall.
“I've ever been a large hoops instrumentality truthful it's astonishing to spot NBA players bring these unthinkable stories to life,” said Wahlberg, who has the accumulation institution Unrealistic Ideas.
Deon and Roxanne Avent Taylor of Hidden Empire Film Group were brought connected to assistance athletes research the creation of filmmaking and sharpen their acting chops.
“Today’s athletes are much than players. They’re storytellers, creators, and planetary influencers," said Deon Taylor, manager of “Black and Blue,” “The Intruder, “Meet the Blacks” and “Fatale.” This marks different sports-driven task for Hidden Empire, which teamed up with Skydance Sports and the NFL successful March to host movie grooming sessions for much than 20 existent and erstwhile NFL players.
Taylor called the collaboration with Garnett, Wahlberg, Hall and the NBA a "culture shift." He said the festival would assistance athletes to power their communicative done film, tv and different media platforms.
“Together, we’re redefining wherever sports, art, and civilization collide,” Taylor said.
The festival volition diagnostic the premiere of “UNLV: Kings of Vegas,” showcasing the untold communicative of the UNLV Runnin' Rebels. The documentary volition see interviews with fashionable figures ranging from Snoop Dogg, Chuck D and Jimmy Kimmel. It's produced by erstwhile UNLV stars Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon and Greg Anthony on with Damien Big Percy Roderick and Hidden Empire Film Group.
Along with screenings, the festival volition big assorted backstage events including a tipoff viewing of “Tony Allen: The Grindfather” and a wrapper party.
“The SLFF squad is passionate astir amplifying these astonishing films and filmmakers who are producing each forms of contented astatine NBA Summer League,” Hall said. “Because of each the talented filmmakers who submitted films this year, we judge the 2025 SLFF is poised to instrumentality connected a beingness of its ain and turn the 2nd play of the Summer League.”
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