''NBA Films for Fans'' is a Canadian short film anthology, which premiered in 2021. Funded by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the first-ever

National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United S ...

game between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1946, the project commissioned five emerging Canadian black, indigenous and people of colour filmmakers to create short documentary films about basketball.Rick Mele
"‘NBA Films for Fans’ Brought Basketball Back to Toronto During TIFF"
'' Complex'', September 21, 2021. The only rules that the filmmakers were given were that the film could be no longer than seven minutes and 50 seconds in length, and that it had to incorporate footage from the NBA archives. The films premiered on September 17, 2021, as a special event at the

2021 Toronto International Film Festival The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, the 46th event in the Toronto International Film Festival series, was held from September 9 to 18, 2021.Barry Hertz"TIFF planning ‘substantially bigger’ 2021 film festival compared to last year’ ...

."NBA Films for Fans created with OLG: Previewing the five films set to premiere at TIFF 2021"
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'', September 17, 2021. They were subsequently released to the web on a dedicated free online streaming platform.

Films

* "Born Identities" —

Kathleen Jayme Kathleen Jayme is a Canadian documentary filmmaker from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is most noted for the films '' Finding Big Country'' and ''The Grizzlie Truth'', which examine the history of the ill-fated Vancouver Grizzlies of the Nationa ...

: The history of the creation of the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies logos in 1995. * "Inheritance" — Shawn Gerrard: An exploration of the love of basketball as a bonding experience in families. * "Shorty" —

Romeo Candido Romeo Montague () is the male protagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy ''Romeo and Juliet''. The son of Lord Montague and his wife, Lady Montague, he secretly loves and marries Juliet, a member of the rival House of Capulet, through a priest ...

: A young girl who is discouraged when she realizes that she is the shortest person at her local basketball tryouts is inspired when her father tells her the history of several shorter players who have excelled in the NBA. * "The Shot" — S.M. Turrell:

Kawhi Leonard Kawhi Anthony Leonard ( ; born June 29, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A two-time NBA champion, he is a five-time All-Star with three All-NBA ...

's Game 7

buzzer beater In basketball and other such timed sports, a buzzer beater is a shot that is taken before the game clock of a quarter, a half (if the half is the second one, then, a game), or an overtime period expires but does not go in the basket until after t ...

shot in the Eastern Conference Semifinals of the

2019 NBA playoffs The 2019 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2018–19 season. The playoffs began on April 13 and ended on June 13 at the conclusion of the 2019 NBA Finals. Overview *The Milwaukee Bucks entered ...

. * "Draft Day" —

Thyrone Tommy Thyrone Tommy is a Canadians, Canadian film director and screenwriter. After writing and directing the short film ''Mariner (film), Mariner'' (2016), Tommy received acclaim for his work on the feature film ''Learn to Swim'' (2021), both of which p ...

: Several Canadian NBA hopefuls await word about their futures on the day of the NBA draft."NBA Films for Fans created with OLG: 'Draft Day' by Thyrone Tommy"
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'', September 17, 2021.

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