STARTING 5 tells the story of the ambitious project "HAMBURG TOWERS". The former Basketball Pro Marvin Willoughby and his colleagues are doing social work and building up local basketball talents for over seven years. The film starts when most of the vision is realized. In the new gym the HAMBURG TOWERS are combining social work and professional basketball. But the dimensions of the project are huge: Marvin has to deal with never ending negotiations with politicians, sponsors and player agents. How can they manage to combine social work and professional basketball and how will they manage not to go down with it?
FILM FUNDING
This film was funded by "Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein"
RELEASES
06. April 2017, german cinema release
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
2016, Filmfest Hamburg - nominated
CREW
Director
Milan Skrobanek
Producer
Ole Hellwig
DoP
Andreas Klein
Editor
Milan Skrobanek / Andreas Massopust
LENGTH
89 Minutes