EVENTS TRANSPIRING BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER A HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME TRAILER
It’s 1999 and the Middleview Ducks boys basketball team are about to play the most low-stakes game of their lives.
As the team prepares for another certain loss, the high school dramas around the game become more of a focus than the score. There’s the basketball team, who are anything but your stereotypical jocks. Perplexed by The Matrix, Joel ponders existentialism and unrelentingly tries to explain the concept to his teammates, while Corey just wants to smoke his pot in peace. This is all to the dismay of their overambitious assistant coach, Brent (Andrew Phung, Kim’s Convenience). He is certain that a win is possible, if only the team can rally and pull off NBA coach Phil Jackson’s famed Triangle Offence, a complicated technique used by the best professional basketball players.
Outside of the gymnasium, Middleview’s radical theatre collective debate over what method of protest will have the most impact after their interpretation of King Lear is cancelled by the administration. A sit-in or something involving nudity and blood? And Ken, a cantankerous referee, tries to balance his ref duties with caring for his soon-to-be ex-wife Karen’s dog. But the osteoporosis-stricken canine is on the loose, and Ken must track her down before Karen makes his life any more difficult.
The mundane realities of high school rise to the forefront as the characters both strive to reach their ambitions and accept their inadequacies. The feature film debut from director / writer Ted Stenson, Events Transpiring Before, During, and After a High School Basketball Game is a funny, offbeat, and endearing unconventional take on the all-too conventional sports narrative – one that will surprise, charm, and entertain.
