AK | Awak Kuier docu for OVERSEAS
Creative direction, filming and editing
Camera: RED Komodo
Client: Overseas Mag
Why a short film about a WNBA player?
Basketball is not one of the sports I follow or practice, I played it a few years in my teens but nothing more. But when the guys from Overseas Mag asked me to make a documentary on the story of Awak Kuier aka AK, a Finnish girl from South Sudan who plays in the WNBA in Dallas and last season in Ragusa I said: "wow ... let's do it!"
Making the short film was beautiful, exhausting and satisfying, in which everyone involved worked hard to tell the AK story. The script was written and outlined by Francesco Bonato and together we studied and made the shots. I was in charge of editing, graphics and animations.