Plays in DC[FRAME] Program: Carry the Light
Friday, June 13
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

Hoops, Hopes & Dreams

Director

Glenn Kaino

Producers

Michael Latt, Alexys Feaster, Glenn Kaino, Afshin Shahidi, Jesse Williams

Editors

Brad Besser, Oliver Best

Consulting Editor

Co-Editor

Assistant Editor

Cinematographer

Afshin Shahidi

Additional Cinematography

Music

Sound

Narration

The untold story about how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an all-star team of civil rights activists took to basketball courts to connect with young voters, and how their strategy echoed in contemporary politics through President Obama’s historic campaign.

Director, Hoops, Hopes & Dreams

Glenn Kaino (Fox & Stork, 2022 Screenwriters Intensive) is a Los Angeles–based artist and filmmaker known internationally for his expansive vision and activist-minded practice. Kaino takes a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to his work, uniting diverse systems of knowledge, methods of production, and individuals who might not typically intersect. His practice often includes long-term partnerships with a wide range of visionary collaborators.

Kaino has exhibited at museums and galleries around the world, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Japanese American National Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, and Pace Gallery amongst others. He was featured in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, New York; Prospect.3, New Orleans, in 2014; and the 12th Biennale de Lyon, France, in 2013. The artist represented the U.S. at the 13th Cairo Biennale in 2013.

Kaino recently co-directed With Drawn Arms, an Emmy-nominated film about his collaboration with Olympian Tommie Smith, and co-produced the off-broadway and film version of the Hulu special In & Of Itself.