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EXCLUSIVE: JDS Sports has partnered with magazine-turned-media company SLAM and camp business Five-Star Basketball to launch RTG Features. The production shingle’s projects will focus exclusively on basketball. The acronym RTG is a nod to SLAM’s original slogan, “Respect the Game.” The company will focus on original…

Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Laura Nix was supposed to board a flight to Copenhagen today, en route to the CPH:DOX festival to pitch her latest project. But the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly forced that event to shift online only, one of countless ways the coronavirus emergency is impacting the documentary…

Before shooting A Kid From Coney Island, a documentary on former NBA star Stephon Marbury, Chike Ozah knew little about the man, apart from a few specific facts. "I knew how much of a beast he was as a basketball player, coming out of class at '96. I knew that much about him," the doc's co-director told Deadline…