Sweetwater with Martin Guigui and Jeremy Kagan (Ep. 413)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Director Martin Guigui discusses his new film, Sweetwater, with fellow director Jeremy Kagan in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Guigui discusses the challenges of maintaining a sense of historical accuracy, finding Globetrotter authenticity in his cast and implementing his vision of how basketball creates a level playing field. The film tells the story of how the game of basketball was changed forever when the New York Knicks took the initiative to integrate the team with the historic introduction of Harlem Globetrotters player, Nathaniel ‘Sweetwater’ Clifton. Please note: spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://dga.org/Events/2023/June2023/Sweetwater_QnA_0423-002.aspx

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0:00.0	And so he tells me, it gives me the address for the gym, and he tells me five o'clock, he plays basketball every day.
0:07.3	So I fly into Phoenix.
0:09.3	I go to the gym.
0:10.6	It's five o'clock.
0:11.5	I'm there.
0:12.2	It's closed.
0:12.8	There's nobody there.
0:14.4	I go to the, to it.
0:15.8	Sounds like a good Harlem contract.
0:18.1	I don't trick.
0:19.1	That's right.
0:20.2	I call a Metal Arc.
0:22.9	I said, hey, man, I'm at the gym.
0:26.0	You know, I'm here.
0:27.3	And he said, yeah.
0:28.6	He said, I said, it's 5 o'clock, 5.15.
0:31.4	He goes, 5 a.m. AM.
0:57.7	Hello, and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
1:04.0	In this episode, the story of the first African-American signed by the NBA is retold,
1:08.1	and director Martine Gigi's biographical sports drama, Sweetwater.
1:13.6	In the film, the game of basketball has changed forever when the New York Knicks take the initiative to integrate the team with the historic introduction of Harlem
1:18.0	Globetrotters player Nathaniel Sweetwater Clifton.
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