Handle with Care: The Legend of the Notic Streetball Crew
86 mins
Largely composed of immigrants and first-generation Canadians from Vancouver’s suburbs, The Notic underground basketball collective overcame all odds to achieve global fame 20 years ago. In defiance of their high school coaches’ casual racism and desire for oppressive conformity, this gregarious group discovered self-expression through streetball’s loose structure and aversion to rules. Bursting onto the scene at the NBA-sponsored Hoop It Up tournament near Science World, the group unleashed a devastating arsenal of bravura tricks and moves. DIY VHS highlights of their showstopping exploits would soon be collected on their first "mixtape". With copies finding their way to every corner of the globe, it was anointed "the bible of streetball".
Jermaine Foster
Self (Archival Footage)
Rory Grace
Self (Archival Footage)
Joey Haywood
Self (Archival Footage)
Andrew Liew
Self (Archival Footage)
David Mubanda
Self (Archival Footage)
Jonathan Mubanda
Self (Archival Footage)
Dauphin Ngongo
Self (Archival Footage)
Jamal Parker
Self (Archival Footage)
Mohammed Wenn
Self (Archival Footage)
Aron Phillips
Executive Producer
Matt Aronson
Executive Producer
Mario Soriano
Executive Producer
Mark Starkey
Executive Producer
Joey Haywood
Executive Producer
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux
Executive Producer
Ryan Sidhoo
Executive Producer
Kirk Thomas
Executive Producer
Lizzy Karp
Executive Producer
Ryan Sidhoo
Producer
Joey Haywood
Writer
Hunter Wood
Director of Photography
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux
Editor
Sarah Cruise
Editor
Alec MacNeill Richardson
Editor
Edo Vanbreemen
Music
Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux
Director
Kirk Thomas
Director
Johannes Winkler
Original Music Composer