Directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster • 2008 • United States
This eye-opening documentary offers a rare look into the world of amateur youth basketball through the eyes of the Harlem-based fifth-grade team the New York Select Huskies, whose players include the son of filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster. Granted unprecedented access to the team’s inner workings as they set out to win the AAU National Basketball Championship, Stephenson and Brewster reveal the grueling price these young players must pay in their quest for victory and shed light on the hidden dark side of amateur sports.
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American Promise
Directed by Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster • 2013 • United States
Beginning in 1999, filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster turned their cameras on two families—including their own—as they grappled with the ups and downs of preparing their sons for academic success. In what would ul...
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Stateless
Directed by Michèle Stephenson • 2020 • United States
In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Dominican army, the killings fueled by anti-Black hatred fomented by the Dominican government. Fast-forward to 2013, when the Dominican Republic...
