Six years ago, after his son (his second child) was born, the Jamaica-born US filmmaker Jason R.A. Foster began thinking about what it means to be a father to a son. The Minneapolis Lakers drafted Foster’s late father in 1960, but he broke his leg after falling from a horse, ending his career before it began. Blending home movies and original footage shot in the US with archival audio recorded in Jamaica, this documentary explores the filmmaker’s relationship with his children, family, and love of basketball.

Special Jury Recognition for Best Louisana Documentary Short | New Orleans Film Festival

“The jury would also like to recognize a film, whose beautiful use of onscreen text expands the limits of what a frame can hold, giving the audience access to process and processing that neither the audio nor the visual can contain. Poignantly moving between reflections on self-imposed assignments, filmmaking, family legacies, blackness, fatherhood, and basketball, the film combines the intimacy of literature with the mind-wandering, associative qualities of experimental cinema."