{"id":204,"date":"2018-04-14T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/culturalhalfcourt\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2018-04-14T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T16:18:18","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/mrp\/culturalhalfcourt\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>About Andrew Savory<\/h1>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_15\">The train left Hefei\u00a0at 2:45 a.m. Destination: Taiyuan. Night turned to day and the grassy settlements that separated the expanse\u00a0between urban metropolises began to blur as the train rattled across China for 13 hours. I was 25 days into a 3,500-kilometre journey across China\u2019s basketball belt. I had gone inside the Middle Kingdom\u2019s Olympic medal factories, I had walked the dormitory hallways of its professional basketball teams and I had ascended the skyscraper where NBA China sits atop Shanghai. In searching for why China\u2019s failed to produce high-calibre professional basketball players, I realized that I seek to tell stories that explore how until a person or nation is able to confront\u00a0its past, it will forever be bound by it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"wixGuard\">\u200b<\/span><span class=\"color_15\">I strive to use the best medium for enlivening a story. As a documentary filmmaker I\u2019ve traversed into the Ottawa Valley alongside a fur trapper to determine where one of Canada&#8217;s oldest trades fits within a modern context of animal rights activism, and I\u2019ve commentated live broadcasts for Carleton University\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team\u2019s run towards its first ever national championship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_9\"><span class=\"color_15\">I arrived at Carleton after studying English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. 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