The Hooping Life
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Hula-hooping is back. The Hooping Life is about the rise of a hot new trend. Life inside the hoop’s about your body, your soul, your art and your heart. Featuring Shaq O’Neal, The String Cheese Incident, The Scissor Sisters, and a score by Basement Jaxx, that captures the free-spirited nature of The Hooping Life. The film follows seven hoopers: Tisha, the daughter of a drug-dealer, creates a hoop program in South Central, LA, to keep kids off the streets taking in her parentless student Jeffery. Karis survives the gang-ridden streets of LA to become an explosive trans gendered performer. Baxter, the son of a southern Bible belt preacher, overcomes suicidal depression by hooping and turns his “Hoop Path” into a spiritual practice followed by thousands. Sandy (aka Sass),South Africa’s first black television star, fire-hoops away the trauma of a brutal rape. Big personalities collide as the divas of the movement, Christabel (aka HoopGirl) and Anah (aka Hoopalicious) team-up for a blockbuster international tour. From the street to the club to the arena, the film alternates between self-filmed video diaries, verité documentary footage and spectacularly filmed performances. Filmed over six years and with an appearance by late hoop-promoter and TV personality Art Linkletter, The Hooping Life’s about sultry dance, cool culture, slammin’ clothes, outer struggle and inner peace.

Additional information

Directors

Amy Goldstein

Studio

Cinedigm

Subtitles

English (CC)

Released year

2014

Duration

1 h 10 min

Genres

Documentary

Size

1.1 GB (SD)

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