
Rebounds
Tim Jones and Derrick Miller never made an NBA roster, so they took their basketball careers to Chile, signing with Puente Alto CD for a season in a league far from American arenas and American paychecks. The film follows them through games and practices, showing what the sport looks like once the money and attention drop off but the competitive stakes do not. Off the court, it tracks the daily reality of playing professionally in a foreign country: unfamiliar cities, a different language, and a level of scrutiny from fans and coaches that has nothing to do with fame. Jones and Miller are two examples of a much larger pattern the film gestures toward, the thousands of American players who go to Europe, Asia, and South America each year chasing a paycheck and a chance to keep playing the only career they trained for. The tension of the games themselves sits alongside quieter scenes of life between them, building a picture of professional basketball as most of its players actually experience it, far from the league that gets the headlines.