World Premiere
Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop
Shorts in Competition: Documentary
| USA | 8 MINUTES | EnglishFemale Director(s), Sports, Documentary
Before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job at Kutsher’s Country Club, a Jewish resort in the Catskills. By day, he was making $2 an hour. At night, he played on Kutsher’s basketball team, coached by its then-unknown athletic director, Red Auerbach. Mixing interviews with rarely seen archival video, this documentary captures a basketball great in a very different era, the Borscht Belt’s Dirty Dancing-styled heyday.
Screening in Shorts Program: Character Witness
Screening in Shorts Program: Character Witness
Cast & Credits
Directed by
Caroline Laskow and Ian Rosenberg
Director
Caroline Laskow
Ian Rosenberg
Editor
D.S. Fuller
Cinematographer
D.S. Fuller
Michael Halsband
Executive Producer
John Dahl
Connor Schell
Bill Simmons (for ESPN Films)
Producer
Daniel Silver (for ESPN Films)
Assistant Producer
Lili du Toit
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