The Queen of Basketball / Film School Radio interview with Director Ben Proudfoot

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ben Proudfoot’s, QUEEN OF BASKETBALL, unravels the story behind one of the all-time greatest women’s basketball players. Born to African American sharecropper parents, one of eleven children, living in poverty, in the Deep South, picking cotton with her siblings in order to keep her family afloat. She learns how to play basketball in high school and less than two years after graduating she carries a little known Mississippi college, Delta State, to three consecutive Women’s national basketball championships. She is picked to play on America’s Women’s Olympic basketball team to play in the first ever Olympic basketball tournament for women. She scores the first and second basket in women's Olympic history. Soon after she becomes the first woman drafted (Utah Jazz) to play in the NBA. But have you ever heard of Lusia (Lucy) May Harris? Director Ben Proudfoot (Concerto is a Conversation) joins us to talk about one of the most accomplished and under-appreciated athletes who’s legacy off the court as a mother, daughter, wife and activist for equality rival her amazing athletic career, enlisting Shaquille O’Neal to be the Executive Producer, as well as the happenstance that spurred Proudfoot into making this beguiling documentary. Watch at: nytimes.com/video/the-queen-of-basketball * Latest News - 2022 Oscar Shortlist for Best Short Documentary World Premiere – 2021 Tribeca Film Festival For more news and updates go to: breakwaterstudios.com 2022 Oscar© Shortlist for Best Short Documentary