Short film with Wisconsin ties wins Academy Award

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Born and raised in Eco-friendly Bay, Wisconsin, Josh Rosenberg claims under no circumstances in his wildest goals did he feel his brief film would close up with the Academy Awards.

“The people today of Wisconsin are so welcoming and definitely embrace when men and women have a big thought they want to go for. I just say the means are there, and you have to go just after what you imagine in,” claims Rosenberg.

Rosenberg went to Ashwaubenon Superior Faculty and then received his broadcast journalism degree from UW-Milwaukee. Now he and his spouse and children reside in Los Angeles, California, exactly where he is effective as the Head of Productions with Breakwater Studios. That is in which he helped carry to lifestyle a now Academy Award winning quick movie named “The Queen of Basketball.”

The 22-minute prolonged film requires the viewer by way of the lifetime of Lusia Harris, a revolutionary athlete who became a basketball phenomenon in the 1970s. She won three championship titles with Delta Point out. And she manufactured history as the very first girl to score a basket in the Olympics. She was also one of the to start with two gals inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Corridor of Fame.

“This was at first created as a result of a sequence named “Almost Famed.” And so what it was was having a glimpse at things in history that, experienced it gone a particular way, they would have been acknowledged. And I believe when we appear at the inequities that are continue to in our culture, no matter if it’s gender, race, these are nevertheless issues that are quite major of intellect. And we sit here and we see Lucia, who is arguably just one of the good athletes of all time, and because of the time she performed, her gender and her race did not give her the chance to absolutely share her gifts with the planet. And I feel sad to say, that is a issue that is nonetheless suitable, and I consider that is resonating with people,” explains Rosenberg.

You can watch “The Queen of Basketball” for cost-free listed here. Rosenberg and his crew are coming out with an additional quick movie known as “Small Town Wisconsin” in June.

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