THE HOOPING LIFE CHARLESTON PREMIERE
APRIL 12TH
Original Music by Basement Jaxx
Hosted by HomeSpun Hoops
and The Charleston International Film Festival
“You will see masters of the hula-hoop like you’ve never seen before. The sensation is back!” - Shaquille O’Neal
Screening and Performances: This Event is FREE!
6:00 PM: Doors open at Cinnebarre
963 Houston-Northcutt Blvd., Mt. Pleasant SC 29464
963 Houston-Northcutt Blvd., Mt. Pleasant SC 29464
6:30 PM: Hoop jam at Cinnebarreis open to the public, all are encouraged to join.
8:30 PM: Screening at Cinnebarre’s Outdoor Theatre. Throughout the evening there will be special hooping performances featuring national and local hoopers!
Watch The Hooping Life Trailer!
Los Angeles, CA: THE HOOPING LIFE, a feature-length documentary that invites you into the making of a cultural phenomenon that unabashedly loves something dopey, will be premiering April 12, 2012 at Cinnebarre at 8:30 pm, hosted by HomeSpun Hoops and The Charleston International Film Festival. Doors at 6pm and a hoop jam will be held at 6:30 pm. Live performances and fire show will follow the screening.
Much like breakdancing and skateboarding, the modern-day hula-hooping subculture brings people together. “Hoopers” i.e. someone who lives to hula-hoop, have brought hooping to rough neighborhoods giving kids a chance at being kids; they practice hoop meditation to lift depression; and fire-hoop to heal trauma.
Whether it is Karis who brings hooping to the runway, or HoopGirl who spearheads a fitness trend, each hooper risks it all to make a life they are passionate about. And it pays off twofold. Eight hoopers over eight years, from Johannesburg to South Central, transgendered to southern Methodist, create a hooping movement that’s vibrant, edgy and infectious.
Hooper Shaquille O’Neal and 50s hoop-maker Art Linkletter introduce these interconnected stories.
“In THE HOOPING LIFE, real life is more fantastic than anything I could have scripted,” says veteran Producer-Director Amy Goldstein. “If something invigorates your soul, you’ve got to give it your all. Many hoopers are surviving these times as hopeful entrepreneurs, teachers and performers with a more colorful life that they ever imagined. THE HOOPING LIFE is an entrepreneur’s guide to happiness.”
THE HOOPING LIFE is being released worldwide via community-organized screenings only starting January 19, 2012.
