Dawn Staley’s prolific basketball existence is heading to the big screen. The South Carolina coach will be the focus of a new documentary that will track the evolution of women’s basketball through the arc of the former Olympian and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer’s career.
The project is still in the early stages, but the production team has filmed Staley at different points during this season, including for South Carolina’s season opener in Paris against Notre Dame; a game against LSU in Baton Rouge in January; a February game against UConn in Columbia, S.C.; and again in March for the regular-season finale against Tennessee in Columbia. A crew will also be at the Final Four in Cleveland with Staley if South Carolina makes it. The top-seeded Gamecocks face No. 4 Indiana on Friday in the Sweet 16.
The film is being co-directed by Kristen Lappas and Sarah Springer. It will be financed and produced by Teton Ridge Entertainment, headed by Thomas Tull, a minority owner of the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and MLB’s New York Yankees and a board member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Lappas’ employer, the content company Words+Pictures, is also a producer on the film.
“Women’s basketball has not been historically documented for future generations,”…
