The Larger Than Life Story of the World's Smallest Professional Basketball Team

THE HOLLYWOOD SHORTIES is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community. Dating back to the 1950s, the Hollywood Shorties were a basketball team formed from an insular group of recognizable-but-typecast actors. What began as a rare outlet for these little people to gather publicly, by the early 80s saw the Shorties enjoying a niche in entertainment akin to the Harlem Globetrotters. Simultaneously, they found themselves the vanguard of a revolution to represent little people as something other than objects of curiosity. But, in a bittersweet turn, the very popularity that the Shorties singlehandedly created would phase the team out of the sport they pioneered.

Media

Cast & Crew

•       Tony Cox
•       George Rossitto
•       Kevin Thompson
•       Jimmy Briscoe

Director: Ryan Steven Green

Producer: Craig Evans

Producer: Ryan Steven Green

Additional Details

Label: Brink

Genre: Documentary

Language: English

Run Time: 85 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 12/13/16

UPC: 187830005563