Roll out the red carpet
As many of you know, two Columbia Univerrsity graduate school students filmed a documentary this season about the Mount Vernon basketball program. Chris Kieffer and Collin Crowell followed the Knights pretty much every day since November, documenting how the program went from near budget-cut casualty to Section 1 champions.
The movie is finished and can be watched on the HoopKnight.com blog, which you can access here. It’s called Hoop Knight: The Season the Town Won Back. Watching the trailer alone on the homepage gives you chills.
The film is roughly 30 minutes long and takes you behind the scenes at Mount Vernon, from pregame speeches to candid interviews with the players at their homes.
I haven’t watched it yet, but I did speak to Kieffer today and he sounded very proud of how it all came out. These guys invested their lives for four months into the project and were so thorough and detailed in their reporting, so I can’t imagine it isn’t worth watching.
Whether you’re a Mount Vernon fan or not, this is definitely worth taking a look at. I know those guys will be anxious to hear your thoughts.
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Very Nice job by the students..i think it fit perfectly with mount V season..good luck to all the Kids At Mount V in the Future
Very well done. One fact that stood out to me was when they said Coach C has sent 82 of 85 seniors to college. That is amazing!
Good film. It had a rhythm and a vibe that gave a feel for their season. Great expectations can be a burden but I have always felt Mt. Vernon knew how to make these expectations work for the team. Sometimes when you expect to do great things you can…as long as application is made.
Congrats to the great Mt.Vernon program. You all have set a standard. And congrats to the student film makers who had a good idea and ran with it!
What a class program. Those kids have alot to be proud of.
Great video on a great program. I know we talk about the great athletic ability of the players all year but how about how they handle themselves on and off the court. I recall you saying kevin that you have almost never seen a mv player act up on the court, this is a testament to coach cimmino, we almost never talk about him because of the amount of talent but he does an amazing job coaching these kids not only on how to play basketball but how to handle themselves in life.
Nice piece of work i would of recommended to have more of an inspirational slash emotional feeling to it. It was a great job and thats wat i can say.
hey just trying to figure out how to watch the actual documentry the clip there looks great! good work guys but i wanna c the whole thing. where do i go?
There are 4 parts on the bottom left. The site starts you on part 1 “Save Our School”.
is anyone else having a problem viewing this? I am not able to download 100% of every chapter and it stops on a few of the chapters before it’s finished>
[...] claiming that Kieffer and I got it 100 percent right, but we’re both pleased with some of the feedback we’ve got since Hoop Knight launched a few days ago. Take a look and tell us what you [...]
[...] Hoop Knight featured on ESPN For a couple of guys with no video making experience and largely operating alone, Chris and I were both pleased with how Hoop Knight turned out. In retrospect, there’s a lot of things we would have loved to have done differently or in more depth, but what we originally wanted to accomplish – to tell a story in documentary film format – was realized. The Hoop Knight story even managed to generate some press of its own. Below are a few highlights. Watching the trailer alone on the homepage gives you chills. Kevin Devaney Reporter The Journal [...]