Ben Proudfoot is up for his second Oscar in two years. The director of 'The Queen of Basketball,' is getting an assist from NBA greats Shaquille O'Neal and Stephen Curry.
Ben Proudfoot is up for his second Oscar in two years. The director of the documentary short,"The Queen of Basketball," first got basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal into his court. Now, 3-time NBA champ Stephen Curry is also in the game.The movie tells the story of Lusia"Lucy" Harris, who was a high school basketball superstar in her small Mississippi town. Then, she was breaking records and winning championships at Delta State University.
"That's been the most common reaction to our film is people saying, 'How come I don't know this? How come I'd never heard of Lucy Harris?' Even basketball historians," Proudfoot said."That was Shaq's response. He said, 'I consider myself a basketball historian and I had never heard of Lucy Harris.' So that's kind of our mission as a filmmaking team.
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