CHI-TOWN

By Nick BUDABIN

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Documentary - Completed 2018

An underdog basketball player from Chicago goes on a meteoric rise to become one of the best college point guards in the nation. But while he pursues dreams of the NBA, his success contrasts with the effects of gun violence on his friends back home.

Festivals
& Awards

SXSW 2018
Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Nick BUDABIN
    • Producer(s)
    • Nick BUDABIN, David GIOIELLA, Mark LITTMAN
    • Synopsis
    • Chi-Town follows Keifer Sykes on his meteoric rise from Marshall High School on Chicago’s West Side to his improbable shot at the NBA. This exhilarating multi-year journey of the explosive point guard’s ascent is punctuated by personal loss, debilitating injury, and tragic violence. This is an intimate, raw, surprising and unique behind the scenes look at a true champion — and what it really takes to make it.