"3 Points" TMAC Documentary about trips to Africa

DrJB25 · Sep 18, 2008

LouisianaRocket said:

T-Mac is the man!! Eff the chinese for selling weapons too people to commit genocide.
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Just like how an American sold resources to the Nazi. This person is very closely related to our current president. Goggle him if you are not informed. Prescott Bush.

I'm not Chinese, and do not support what they are doing at all. But your comment is ignorant. If you include the China you should include America as well. Or do you not know your history and are unaware of all the terrible things our government has done??

No one is perfect. Don't point fingers if you do not know your history.

weirdo100 · Nov 6, 2008

anyone know when this film is set to be released and how/where we can watch it?

Kwame · Nov 6, 2008

Is Angelina Jolie making a cameo?

Rocketsmith · Nov 6, 2008

This makes me a little prouder to be a Houston Rocket fan. Deke and T-Mac are doing good things for the people of Africa. My daughter is currently with the Peace Corp and is stationed in Cameroon. She has been helping a 14 year old Cameroon boy named Franck, who proudly wears the T-Mac shirt that I sent him. He has become a Rockets fan and dreams of the day that he can watch a Rockets game in person. I just sent them the article and I'm sure they will be happy to see that T-Mac is doing good things for the people of Africa.

across110thstreet · Nov 6, 2008

weirdo100 said:

anyone know when this film is set to be released and how/where we can watch it?
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i wish there was more info on this. there's supposed to be a screening this weekend in LA, but I don't know if its a private event or a public screening...

across110thstreet · Nov 10, 2008

here's something in the chron about the first screening, at a big talent agency in Hollywood over the weekend.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6103981.html

CENTURY CITY, Calif. — The date jumped from the schedule, a Saturday night off in Los Angeles, with a Friday night win giving the Rockets a send off to whatever options of the city they would choose.
Tracy McGrady went to a movie premier. He took a seat in a private screening room at famed Creative Artists Agency. Yet, this was not McGrady going Hollywood.
This night — the first viewing of a documentary on his 2007 trip to the Darfur refugee camps in Chad — was a triumph and about much more than an evening on the town.
The documentary — called “3 Points” (a reference to the goals of peace, protection and punishment) — travels with McGrady from his hometown of Auburndale, Fla., to his luxurious life in Sugar Land and on to the refugee camps where he learns of the horrific atrocities suffered in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
Sometimes funny, but often gut-wrenching, the film shows McGrady grow from naïve and privileged at the start to educated and driven as he visits with the refugees from the mass genocide that has take place in the Sudan since 2003.
“This is a project that means so much to me,” McGrady said. “One thing I promised the kids and all the people there was that I would make sure their words are heard.”
McGrady, along with his longtime friend Ira Seright, his manager and film executive producer Elissa Grabow and activists Omer Ismail and John Prendergast made the trip in August 2007. Filmmaker Josh Rothstein and cameraman Brian Jackson documented their six days of travel and visits to the camps, filming as elders, women and children tell stories of the unthinkable acts they encountered while fleeing from Darfur to the camps in Djabal, Koloma and Koubigou.
“The most important thing is the message,” McGrady said. “That all we want from this film, to get the message out and get people to want to get involved.”
Talks are ongoing with several groups, including CAA, to distribute the film to cable television outlets and film festivals. In conjunction with the completion of the film, McGrady and Lakers guard Derek Fisher are recruiting NBA players for the “Darfur Dream Team Sister School Program” to raise money for schools in the refugee camps.
The film ends with McGrady telling students at his high school in Auburndale, the first of the sister schools, about his trip and all he learned. The film, however, centers on how much McGrady had to learn when he arrived and how shocked and horrified he is as the stories are told.
“I think it’s real powerful to watch,” McGrady said. “I promised all the people there I would get the word out. It’s very important to me to do that. Seeing the film, it’s touching. Anybody that sees the film will want to do something, will want to be involved. I don’t have the answers. John knows it all. He was the right guy to have there to teach us about it all. My job is to reach people and for the film to touch people.”
The viewing ended with stunned silence before applause. But one sentence spoken later might have said more.
Seeing a break in the line to speak to Prendergast, Los Angeles Clippers star Baron Davis knew there was something he had to do.
“I got to go,” Davis said, pointing at Prendergast. “I have to talk to this guy.”
jonathan.feigen@chron.com
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