Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game

Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game is a Canadian comedy film, directed by Ted Stenson and released in 2020.[1] Set at the fictional Middleview High School in Calgary, Alberta, in the late 1990s, the film depicts various goings-on centred around the school's largely unsuccessful basketball team, including the referee being forced to babysit his wife's dog, point guard Joel's attempts to indoctrinate his teammates in the philosophy of The Matrix, and the school's theatre students planning a protest after being denied permission to stage a "post-colonial" production of King Lear.[1]

Events Transpiring Before, During and After a High School Basketball Game
Directed byTed Stenson
Produced byKevin Dong
Nicola Waugh
Written byTed Stenson
StarringAndrew Phung
Paul Cowling
Benjamin Arthurs
Isra Abdelrahim
Music byJulianna Hindemith
CinematographyGuillaume Carlier
Edited byGuillaume Carlier
Ted Stenson
Production
company
Kino Sum Productions
Release date
  • September 24, 2020 (2020-09-24) (VIFF)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The film was acted by a cast of predominantly amateur local actors, apart from Andrew Phung in the role of the basketball team's coach Brent.[1] It was shot in 2019 at Calgary's Queen Elizabeth High School,[2] and was funded by Telefilm Canada's Talent to Watch microbudget film financing program.[3]

The film premiered on September 24, 2020 on the VIFF Connect platform of the 2020 Vancouver International Film Festival,[4] and was screened over the next week on the virtual platforms of the Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival and the Calgary International Film Festival.[5]

References
  1. Eric Volmers, "Calgary filmmaker Ted Stenson heads back to school with Andrew Phung for indie debut". Calgary Herald, August 14, 2019.
  2. Kevin Green, "Queen Elizabeth High School backdrop of new movie from Calgary filmmaker". CTV Calgary, August 14, 2019.
  3. Lauren Malyk, "Ted Stenson’s comedy ‘Events Transpiring’ wraps". Playback, August 19, 2019.
  4. "Loretta Sarah Todd's 'Monkey Beach' to open Vancouver film festival". CityNews, September 3, 2020.
  5. Eric Volmers, "Awkward teen comedy makes its way to Cinefest". Sudbury Star, September 24, 2020.
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