Drama | PBSback to FilmsThis is a Game, Ladies
It’s more than basketball. It’s life.
Follow the Rutgers University Women’s basketball team on a two-year emotional rollercoaster as they battle to win an NCAA Championship. Throughout the journey, meet the extraordinary young women on the team and the legendary Vivian Stringer, one of the most celebrated and successful coaches of all time.
Partisan Pictures is granted unprecedented access to follow the players and their coach – behind the scenes and off the court – as they fight their way to the NCAA finals, struggle to become professional athletes and emerge as women in a world beyond college.
Winner of the Audience Award at AFI SilverDocs and Best Film Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.
- Directed by
- Peter Schnall
- Producers
- Peter Schnall
- Tracy Barry
- Executive Producers
- Peter Schnall
- Hilary Sio
- Denise Williams
- Editor
- Rob Kuhns
- Coordinating Producers
- Elana Bluestine
- Tina Ver
- Cinematography
- Peter Schnall
- Sound Recordist
- Tracy Barry
- Original Music
- Anton Sanko
- Ellis Hall
- Music Supervisor
- Tracy McKnight
- Associate Producer / Assistant Camera
- Tammie Rhee
- Associate Editor
- Jeff Gilbert
- Additional Camera
- Jerry Risius
- Additional Sound
- Glenn Marullo
- Office Manager
- Jessica Applebaum
- Assistant Editors
- Dan Davis
- Allison Zell
- Production Assistants
- Larissa Andrews
- Justine Simonson
- Abe Foreman-Greenwald
- Karina Towers
- Justin Mitchell
- Glenn C. Reimer
- Isabel Schnall
- Mixer and Sound Design
- Joe Caterini
- On-line Editor
- David Markun, Henninger Capitol
- Production Accountant
- Brian Minahan
- Special Thanks
- Rutgers University
- Dawn Buckner
- Heather Brocious
- Henninger Capitol
- The Albequerque Tribune, December 15, 2004
- "You don't have to be a sports fan to be drawn into this doc, which spends a season with the Rutgers University basketball team. There are thrills, spills and disappointments. But mostly, it's about the ladies themselves and Stringer in particular. The woman is a dynamo who is an astonishing mix of drive and motherly love. Good stuff."
- The Kansas City Star, December 12, 2004
- "You know this fly-on-the-wall chronicle of life in women's college basketball is going to be special from the first scene. The Scarlet Knights seem to be giving their all, but they fall short. It's a crushing loss, and filmmaker Peter Schnall captures it in all of its pathos."
- News and Documentary EMMY Award Nomination
- Best Cinematography
- 2004 SILVERDOCS Film Festival
- Winner, Audience Award
- Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival
- Winner, Best Documentary
- The Aurora Awards
- Winner, Best of Show