Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BDVD0556
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 187830005563
- Street Date: 12/13/16
- PreBook Date: 11/08/16
- Label: Brink »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 85 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2016
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: WORLD
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Tony Cox
- George Rossitto
- Kevin Thompson
- Jimmy Briscoe
- Director: Ryan Steven Green
- Producer: Craig Evans
- Producer: Ryan Steven Green
- Producers: Craig Evans
- Producers: Ryan Steven Green
Product Assets
The Hollywood Shorties
The Larger Than Life Story of the World's Smallest Professional Basketball Team
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THE HOLLYWOOD SHORTIES is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Dating back to the 1950s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team formed from an insular group of recognizable-but-typecast actors. What began as a rare outlet for these little people to gather publicly, by the early 80s saw the Shorties enjoying a niche in entertainment akin to the Harlem Globetrotters. Simultaneously, they found themselves the vanguard of a revolution to represent little people as something other than objects of curiosity. But, in a bittersweet turn, the very popularity that the Shorties singlehandedly created would phase the team out of the sport they pioneered.
Media
Sales Points
- Official Selection Hell's Half Mile Film Festival
- Official Selection Sidewalk Film Festival
- Official Selection San Francisco Doc Fest
- Official Selection SXSW Film Festival
Press Quotes
Sweet and Compelling
—Austin Chronicle
Inspiring, funny and informative
—Aint It Cool News
Told With Great sensitivity
—The Moveable Fest
A Triumph
—AMFM Magazine