The pandemic forced a team of documentary series filmmakers at Radnor’s WorkShop Content Studios to leave the Navajo Nation town of Chinle, Ariz. before they could finish a second season.

But it brought them closer to the subjects of that documentary, a high school basketball team and the town residents, writes Phil Anastasia for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“We went to Chinle to do a basketball show and to help change the lives of that community,” said Tom Farrell, The WorkShop’s founder and CEO. “But in reality, they ended up changing our lives in a way we will carry forever.”

Their Netflix documentary series, Basketball or Nothing, features the basketball team’s pride and persistence in a poverty-ridden community particularly vulnerable to the pandemic.

The WorkShop worried about the health of the town.

They  sent more than 3,000 masks, and collaborated to send two 55-gallon drums of hand sanitizer and other items to Chinle’s residents.

“Their actions have proven that they care. The things they sent have been enormously helpful. It was almost impossible for us to get masks and gloves, said Chinle High School athletic director Shaun Marin. “They showed we’re still in the forefront of their minds.”

Read more about Chinle here.

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