Desires can change lives—and the U.S. political panorama. And in 2020, WNBA staff the Atlanta Dream did each.
Simply forward of the twenty seventh WNBA season tip-off, Amazon Prime Video has ordered a documentary movie Energy of the Dream that particulars how the staff took on their proprietor, and completely altered Georgia politics.
“We consider within the energy of girls’s sports activities to encourage and entertain audiences all over the world, and stay dedicated to amplifying ladies’s voices,” mentioned Marie Donoghue, vp of worldwide sports activities video at Amazon, in a press release. “Our funding in ladies’s sports activities extends past our dwell protection, as we’re devoted to highlighting storytelling about feminine athletes, and empowering feminine management in entrance of and behind the digicam.
“With the extension of our WNBA deal, we’re thrilled to deliver the joy of girls’s basketball to Prime members as soon as once more, and look ahead to persevering with to champion storytelling in ladies’s sports activities.”
Whereas WNBA gamers have lengthy been on the forefront of social justice actions in sports activities, the Dream took motion after Georgia senator—and Dream co-owner—Kelly Loeffler publicly criticized the league’s assist of the Black Lives Matter motion. Greater than 70% of WNBA gamers are Black.
In an effort to elect Rev. Raphael Warnock to the U.S. Senate, gamers took to the courtroom donning “Vote Warnock” pregame warm-up shirts, and the league devoted its 2020 season to Breonna Taylor, who was killed by Louisville, Ky. police throughout a drug raid.
The motion shortly unfold past the WNBA, producing huge momentum for Warnock, an endorsement from former President Barack Obama, and a runoff election win.
Six weeks later, Loeffler offered the franchise. A part of the investor group consists of Renee Montgomery—a former Dream participant, and the primary retired participant to develop into each an proprietor and a WNBA government.
The documentary comes from Industrial Media, Trilogy Movies, Pleasure Mill Leisure and Togethxr. It’s produced by Daybreak Porter, Adweek cowl star Tracee Ellis Ross and WNBA stars Sue Chook and Nneka Ogwumike.
