Briarcliff will debut Sweetwater in select US theaters starting on April 14th, 2023 this spring. This hasn't premiered at any festivals or elsewhere, as far as we know. Black baseball players were not always allowed to play our national pastime at the Major League level. ![]() Konski, Tim Moore, Darren Moorman, and Dahlia Waingort. Major League Baseball Black Firsts in History. Sweetwater is written and directed by Argentinian musician / filmmaker Martin Guigui, director of many films including Changing Hearts, Swing, Cattle Call, Beneath the Darkness, The Bronx Bull, Drama Drama, The Unhealer, Paradise Cove, & The Hit Man previously, plus shorts and music videos. He was already an all-star athlete who, at the time, played for an all-Black professional basketball team and during the off-season, also played first baseman in the Negro league baseball. At age 27, Sweetwater signed with the New York Knicks and played his first game on November 4th, 1950. Newcomer Everett Osborne stars in the film, portraying Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, a future hall-of-famer who became one of the first Black basketball players to play in the NBA. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Martin Guigui's Sweetwater, direct from Briarcliff's YouTube: This seems a bit generic but looks like a good story to tell anyway about an important person who is not that well known nowadays. Everett Osborne stars as Nat, with a cast including Jeremy Piven, Cary Elwes, Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Kevin Pollak, Jim Caviezel, Mike Starr, and Gary Clark Jr. "The game of basketball would never be played the same." This is "inspired" by the true story of Hall of Famer Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton - he played his first game for the New York Knicks four days after the debut of Washington Capitols player Earl Lloyd, the first black player to appear in an NBA game. More than 2,000 former NFL players have lodged dementia claims, but fewer than 600 have received compensation. In the fall of 1950, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton forever changed the game of basketball when he became the very first African American contracted to play in the NBA. One black player involved in the litigation called the policy 'classic system racism'. ![]() This opens in theaters in April, right after the NCAA finals, and hasn't played at any festivals. has revealed a trailer for a sports movie called Sweetwater, telling the true story of an iconic basketball player. "Change is happening - but I don't know if my city can take it." Briarcliff Ent.
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