Exclusive: NBA All-Star Chris Paul is teaming up with Roadside Entertainment to produce a docuseries rooted in basketball programs at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
The show will unfold over the course of the 2020-21 season, with exact participants and schools still to be determined. The goal is to provide an intimate look at the challenges Hbcu schools face in competing with bigger programs to attract top basketball recruits. Waves of nationwide protests against racism in recent weeks have resurfaced the issue. Deadline reported Tuesday about an Hbcu feature film project set up at Universal from producer Will Packer.
Paul’s Ohh Dip!!! Productions will produce the show with Roadside founding partners Ron Yassen and John Hirsch. The two companies have collaborated on Emmy-nominated documentary Crossroads, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. Paul and Roadside are both repped by CAA.
Speaking to Deadline from his home in...
The show will unfold over the course of the 2020-21 season, with exact participants and schools still to be determined. The goal is to provide an intimate look at the challenges Hbcu schools face in competing with bigger programs to attract top basketball recruits. Waves of nationwide protests against racism in recent weeks have resurfaced the issue. Deadline reported Tuesday about an Hbcu feature film project set up at Universal from producer Will Packer.
Paul’s Ohh Dip!!! Productions will produce the show with Roadside founding partners Ron Yassen and John Hirsch. The two companies have collaborated on Emmy-nominated documentary Crossroads, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018. Paul and Roadside are both repped by CAA.
Speaking to Deadline from his home in...
- 7/1/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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