When the Garden Was Eden
World Premiere

When the Garden Was Eden

Gala
| USA | 75 MINUTES | English | English subtitles
Sports, Documentary, New York, Returning Filmmaker
Actor and tried-and-true New Yorker Michael Rapaport delivers an unabashed love letter to the Knicks with this fast-moving tribute to the team’s glory days, based on Harvey Araton’s best-selling book from 2012, When the Garden Was Eden. In the late ’60s, basketball was the city’s forgotten sport. Enter an unlikely band of scrappy team players, many of them future hall-of-famers, who would transform the team into one of the NBA’s most dazzling squads.

Featuring interviews with Walt “Clyde” Frazier, Earl Monroe, Willis Reed, Bill Bradley, Phil Jackson, Red Holzman, Dave DeBusschere, Jerry Lucas, and many more stars from the Knicks’ championship years, When the Garden Was Eden is a snapshot of a colorful and volatile era in New York history and a testament to the breathless energy that defines the city and its sporting heroes.

-Arthur Ryel-Lindsey

Cast & Credits
Directed by
Michael Rapaport
Director
Michael Rapaport
Producer
Jason Bergh
Michael Rapaport
Editor
Kevin Barth
Associate Producer
Emily Isacson
Cinematographer
Jeb Bergh
Executive Producer
Doug Ellin
Jim Lefkowitz
Co-Producer
Cole Angenendt
Harvey Araton
Cast
Willis Reed
Phil Jackson
Cazzie Russell
Marv Albert
Earl Monroe
and Walt Frazier

Contacts
Press Contact
Jay Jay Nesheim
ESPN
New York, 10023
Phone: 646 547 5839
JayJay.Nesheim@espn.com
Print Source
Jason Bergh
UX Entertainment Group
Los Angeles, 90039
Phone: 9175436299
jason@uxentertainment.com

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