Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart's documentary chronicles the losing season of a small town high school basketball team. By THR Staff Medora Film still - H 2013 The titular Indiana town is clearly in sad ...

Medora follows the down-but-not-out Medora Hornets, capturing the players’ stories on and off the court as they seek to avoid another winless season. Medora is an in-depth, deeply personal look at ...

It all started with The New York Times. In 2009, the paper of record sent a reporter to Medora, a tiny town 80 miles south of Indianapolis. He returned with a story that seemed like the anti-Hoosiers: ...

The Ann Arbor, Michigan-raised Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart have worn a lot of creative hats. Rothbart created the eclectic, cult magazine Found, has contributed to NPR’s This American Life, written ...

An article about a hapless basketball team spawns a film that follows a few Indiana high schoolers—and lends new meaning to a small town needing something to root for. Cohn and Rothbart knew they had ...

Medora follows a small Indiana town’s high school basketball team that is continually facing an uphill battle. Largely outpopulated by the conglomerated schools in the state, Medora has kept its small ...

The sports drama is a subgenre that audiences eat up at least once every single year. And while most of those films exist as feature film narratives, every now and then those kinds of stories come ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The closing scene in the 82-minute documentary “Medora” had barely finished when John Werner turned to the person next to him and gave his review: “They got it right,” Werner said.

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

In Monday's issue of IBJ, I'll be highlighting some of the strongest selections at this year's Indianapolis International Film Festival. But since one is screening Friday (i.e., tonight) in an unusual ...

Filmmakers Andrew Cohn and Davy Rothbart deliver a bleakly potent portrait of life in an economically devastated Middle American town. Small victories — indeed, victories of any sort — are all the ...