{"id":2964,"date":"2017-02-06T22:30:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T22:30:37","slug":"rockridges-advanced-film-class-presents-longshot-the-brian-upson-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/rockridges-advanced-film-class-presents-longshot-the-brian-upson-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockridge&#8217;s Advanced Film Class Presents Longshot: The Brian Upson Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rockridge\u2019s Advanced Film 12 students have been hard at work since last September creating the documentary, <em>Longshot, The Brian Upson Story<\/em>.\u00a0 They will premiere the film at Kay Meek Centre on Friday, February 24<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Film teacher, David Shannon explains, \u201cBrian Upson was the head coach of West Vancouver Secondary School\u2019s basketball team from the 1950s to 1982. Of all the WVSS Highlander teams that he took to the Provincial Championships, only one made it into the finals, in 1982.\u201d The documentary follows the spectacular story of this team. \u201cWVSS was playing Argyle Secondary for the provincial championship.\u00a0 This was the first time on record that both teams were from the North Shore,\u201d says Mr. Shannon. It was a thrilling final game and \u201cafter almost 30 years of coaching, Brian finally had his championship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Longshot: The Brian Upson Story Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAaMNrfhz5A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What makes the story even more inspiring is that \u201cBrian had been battling stomach cancer for 3 years, and for the past year he had been unable to move around much, with the exception of basketball and doctor appointments. At times, basketball practices and games were the only reason Brian would venture out of the house. Two weeks to the day after the BC championship game, Brian passed away in his West Vancouver home,\u201d explains Mr. Shannon.\u00a0Interviews with his family members, former players, and local reporters reveal the life of Brian Upson and the effect he still has on the community today.<\/p>\n<p>Although the 6 pm show is already sold out, tickets are still available\u00a0for the 8 pm show.\u00a0 To purchase tickets, please go to <a href=\"http:\/\/kaymeekcentre.com\/on_stage\/2486\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc\">http:\/\/kaymeekcentre.com\/on_stage\/2486<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about the film, please see the West Vancouver School District <a href=\"http:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/learning-curve\/longshot-the-brian-upson-story-2\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockridge\u2019s Advanced Film 12 students have been hard at work since last September creating the documentary, <em>Longshot, The Brian Upson Story<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westvancouverschools.ca\/rockridge-secondary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}