Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Longshot: The Brian Upson Story
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2017 · FILM

Longshot: The Brian Upson Story

Directed by
Runtime
51 min
BiographyDocumentaryHistory

Synopsis

In 1982, the West Vancouver Highlanders were in the provincial championship game against a cross town rival. This was the first appearance for West Van and their head coach, Brian Upson. It would also be his last game. Brian was fighting a losing battle against cancer and was living on borrowed time. What followed was one of the most incredible stories in basketball history.

Credits

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 5

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Tavish KelpinShot by Nicholas Tremblay

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.