Finding Big Country (2018)
September 30, 2018Release Date
Finding Big Country (2018)
September 30, 2018Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Kathleen S. Jayme
Self / Executive Producer / Story / Director / Writer
Bryant Reeves
Self
Steve Owst
Still Photographer
Jonathan Krauth
Additional Camera
James Brown
Executive Producer
Michael Dinsmore
Colorist / Director of Photography / Still Photographer
Greg Ng
Story / Editor
Michael Grand
Story / Producer
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Finding Big Country is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Kathleen Jayme and released in 2018. The film documents her attempts to trace the whereabouts of former Vancouver Grizzlies player Bryant "Big Country" Reeves several years after his 2001 retirement from basketball.
The film had its theatrical premiere at the 2018 Vancouver International Film Festival, where it was the winner of the People's Choice Award and the Daily Hive #mustseeBC Award. It subsequently received two special public screenings in Reeves' home state of Oklahoma before returning to the film festival circuit, where it won the award for Best Canadian Film at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and the awards for Best Multicultural Film and Best Documentary POV at the 2019 Yorkton Film Festival.
The film won five Leo Awards in 2019, for Best Short Documentary, Best Direction in a Short Documentary (Jayme), Best Screenwriting in a Short Documentary (Jayme), Best Picture Editing in a Short Documentary (Greg Ng) and Best Sound in a Short Documentary (Gregor Phillips).
Jayme subsequently made several further short documentary films about basketball, including We the West (2019) and Born Identities (2021), before releasing the full-length documentary film The Grizzlie Truth, an exploration of the Vancouver Grizzlies' overall failure, in 2022.