‘Handle With Care: Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew’ Doc Trailer
‘Handle With Care: Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew’ Doc Trailer
by Alex Billington
March 5, 2024
Source: YouTube
“Streetball gives you the opportunity to say ‘what’s basketball to me?'” Gravitas has unveiled the trailer for a documentary film titled Handle With Care: Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew, made by Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux & Kirk Thomas. This originally premiered back in 2021 at the Vancouver Film Festival, with appearances at Hot Docs and Urbanworld as well. It’s finally be getting a full release starting later in March this year after waiting for 3 years. The acclaimed doc follows the emergence of a Vancouver streetball crew known as “The Notic” in the early 2000s. They gained significant recognition for their & swagger during a 2001 NBA-sponsored tournament. While their creative basketball moves brought them fame as teenagers, it set them at odds with the status quo in a battle involving self-expression, race and rejection. The film has interviews with The Notic streetball crew: Joey “King Handles” Haywood, Rory “Disaster” Grace, Jonathan “Johnny Blaze” Mubanda, Jermaine “Fresh” Foster, Andrew “6 Fingaz” Liew, David “Dazzle” Mubanda, Dauphin “Delight” Ngongo, Jamal “Whereyouat?” Parker, and Mohammed “Goosebumps” Wenn. This looks way more emotional & honest than expected. Keep an eye out for this sports doc coming your way soon. 🏀
Official 2024 trailer for Handle With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew, on YouTube:
Handle With Care chronicles the rise, fall and rebirth of The Notic, an upstart streetball collective from Canada in the early 2000s. While their creative basketball moves brought them global fame as teenagers, it set them at odds with the status quo in a battle involving self-expression, race and rejection. Driven by a twenty-year quest to finish their mixtape trilogy, the documentary charts how the group of friends from Vancouver played outside the confines of the NBA yet still left an indelible imprint on the game forever. Handle With Care: The Legend of The Notic Streetball Crew is a documentary film co-directed by two filmmakers Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux & Kirk Thomas, the original filmmakers behind the first two Notic mixtapes, as well as many music videos and short films before making this. Produced by Ryan Sidhoo, along with TELUS Originals, RTG Features and Victory Creative Group. This doc initially premiered at the 2021 Vancouver Film Festival a few years ago. Gravitas Ventures will debut the Handle With Care streetball doc in select US theaters + on VOD starting March 26th, 2024 coming soon. Look good? Want to watch this?
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