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Alaskan Nets [Played Nov. 17 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various digital and VOD platforms.] Striking cinematography and scenery highlights Jeff Harasimowicz's uplifting, inspirational, low-key, down-to-earth, thought-provoking, 2-hour, 2021 documentary that focuses on the importance, dependency, and obsession of fishing and basketball to the indigenous Tsimshian people in Alaska's last native Indian reserve Metlakatla and the hardworking, tenacious Metlakatla Chiefs team members struggling to win their long overdue championship after 34 years despite devastating tragedies that have befallen the community and consists of energizing snippets from various basketball games and candid commentary by fisherman Brad Martinez, high school principal Taw Lindsey, science teacher and assistant basketball coach Adam Krick, head basketball coach Archie Young, player Desmond "DJ" King Jr., AJ's dad Monte Hayward and uncle Butch Hayward, Danny's mother Talia Marsden, teacher Josh Gifford, former basketball players Marty Martinez and Monte Hayward, player and fisherman Hunter Winter, team grandmother Melody Leask, players (such as Richie Hayward, Bryan Hayward, and Conrad Hudson Jr.), former head coach Don Wickersham, and DJ's father Desmond King Sr. and uncle Donovan Marsden.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Alaskan Nets on the Internet Movie Database