Rutgers Basketball Documentary Earns Emmy Nomination
Jul 12 | Women's Basketball
PISCATAWAY, NJ - This Is A Game Ladies, a documentary by Partisan Pictures that chronicled the Rutgers women's basketball team during the 2000-2001 season, has been nominated for a 2005 Emmy.
The two-hour documentary and its director/cinematographer, Peter Schnall, have been nominated in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Cinematography." The 26th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented Sept. 19 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
This Is A Game Ladies made its national debut on PBS affiliates in December of 2004. It follows the Scarlet Knights throughout the 2000-2001 season, one year removed from Rutgers' first-ever appearance in the NCAA Tournament Final Four. The piece made its international debut at the AFI/Discovery Silverdocs Film Festival in June of 2003 in Silver Springs, MD, and also appeared at the Starz Denver International Film Festival, the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, the High Falls (Rochester, NY) Film Festival and the Trenton Film Festival. This Is A Game Ladies won the Audience Award at Silverdocs, and was named Best Documentary at Ft. Lauderdale.
According to Gabriel Wardell of Silverdocs, "This Is A Game Ladies succeeds on many levels. The outstanding cinematography and energizing music keep pace with the young women of Rutgers. Director Peter Schnall dedicates this story not just to the players and their season, but also to the lady who gives all of her being to the cause. A visionary, a mother and a widow, Coach (C. Vivian) Stringer has overcome insurmountable odds and personal tragedy as she continues to form talented athletes into confident women and committed citizens. Some say that women's basketball is more passionate and unaffected than its male counterpart, and This Is A Game Ladies makes a persuasive case."
Partisan Pictures, located in New York, NY, has filmed numerous documentaries for National Geographic TV, PBS, the History Channel, BBC, Devillier/Donegan and the Discovery Channel. Partisan founder Schnall has won six Emmys.
PBS has established a companion website for the documentary with in-depth and updated information, located at www.pbs.org/thisisagame/.
