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SBS schedule release date for 'Sunshine'
SBS will air the first two episodes of a 4 part mini-series on October 18/19th at 8.30pm
Starring Anthony La Paglia, Vince Colosimo, Melanie Lynskey and headlined by Big V player Wally Elnour.
The preview looks awesome:
http://www.sbs.com.au/programs/video/1040937027843/Sunshine-is-coming-to-SBS-Preview
"The story of Sunshine follows the life of Jacob, a young, aspiring South Sudanese-Australian basketball player who is on the cusp of being picked up by US scouts for the US College league. Jacob's team is not up to his standard and so he angles to bring in a better coach. His choice is Eddie (LaPaglia), a local guy in his 50’s, who once played for a US college team, but has long since retired and operates a small sports store in Sunshine, a suburb in the west of Melbourne. Almost against his best instincts, he accepts an approach by Jacob to coach his underperforming team, The Sunshine Kings. In the midst of aspiring to win at all costs, Jacob finds himself answering to Sunshine-raised lawyer Zara Skelton (Lynskey) when he is caught up in a police investigation involving a teenage girl from one of Melbourne’s affluent suburbs."
The filming took place at Braybrook YMCA in Sunshine where the Saturday junior competition is predominantly filled with Longhorns players. It's the club where Deng Adel, Mangok Mathiang, Kuany Kauny and many others got their start:
https://www.facebook.com/Longhorns-Basketball-Club-104406052938165/
I'm looking forward looking forward to seeing what sort of angle this mini-series puts on Australia's most recent refugee migrant community. The players I get to work with every week at the Longhorns are absolutely outstanding kids in every way. Wally Elnour the lead actor is one of our graduates.
