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Among the nominees for this year's Oscars, in the category of Best Documentary Short Feature,

is a film about a mostly forgotten basketball star from the 1970s named Lucia May Harris.

Today, the director of that documentary, Ben Proudfoot, joins us to discuss Harris's truly incredible life and accomplishments.

And why they have mostly been lost to history.

From Wondry in the Athletic, I'm Tiffany Oshinsky. It's Wednesday, February 23rd, and this is The Lead.

So Ben, you have a different background than many of the guests that we have on our show.

So can you first just tell us a little bit about yourself?

Sure, I'm from Nova Scotia in Canada and I was a magician as a teenager, which is how I first came to Los Angeles

because I was part of the Magic Castle Junior program.

No way.

Yes, it's true. That's also how I got into like being an entrepreneur because I needed to make money to fly my way from Halifax to LA.

And eventually that love of magic transformed into a love of movies.

So the sleight of hand magic turned into the magic of moviemaking.

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