Through The Fire Sebastian Telfair Watch
Ted Brathwaite
He went to Lincoln High School. A powerhouse of New York basketball that has had players like Stephon Marbury, Lance Stephenson, and Jesus Shuttlesworth come through. His story unfortunately never panned out and he never spent more than two seasons on a team while in the NBA over his 10 year career. Then in August he was sentenced to three years in prison for weapons charges. Every high school hoop star should be required to watch this documentary.
Documents the arrival and adaption that Yao Ming had to go through in coming to America from China, including his first season in the NBA. And how he put a country of 1.2 billion people on his back as they watched him compete with the best players in the world.
When I recently I discovered that the domain for throughthefiremovie.com was available I bought it with the goal of recreating some of its content from archived pages. I definitely didn't want someone else purchasing the domain and re-purposing the site for something that had nothing in common with Sebastian Telfair and the 2005 film. Consider the resurrected site as an homage to this film and the struggles of young but hugely talented players like Telfair.
The final segment Of Miracles and Men shifts to the aftermath of the stunning Soviet loss, and through the telling of Fetisov, how he and other Soviet hockey players ultimately forced the country to allow their players to go professional and join the NHL. You can discover how the entire saga unfolded and watch the documentary now on Disney+.
In this series, we catch up with Columbia Film Professors and ask them to dish on what they're watching right now, which movies and shows blew them away or didn't live up to expectations, and what it's like to watch through a filmmaker's eyes.
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