{"id":71463,"date":"2021-11-30T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T03:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=71463"},"modified":"2021-12-06T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:43:57","slug":"smokeyswrld-explores-canadian-prospects-basketball-journey-in-aftermath-of-brothers-high-profile-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/smokeyswrld-explores-canadian-prospects-basketball-journey-in-aftermath-of-brothers-high-profile-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"SMOKEYSWRLD explores Canadian prospect&#8217;s basketball journey in aftermath of brother&#8217;s high-profile murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director Luke Galati's newest documentary,\u00a0<em>SMOKEYSWRLD<\/em>, follows the journey of Kymahni Bent, a highly touted basketball prospect striving for a Division 1 scholarship at a US college.<\/p>\n<p>Bent is a longtime resident of Toronto's Regent Park community and speaks about his upbringing in the film, as well as coping with the murder of his brother Jahvante Smart.<\/p>\n<p>Smart was known professionally as the emerging Toronto rapper Smoke Dawg, who\u00a0was shot and killed in broad daylight in the city's downtown core in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was about to release his debut album prior to his death, and was viewed as one of the city's rising talents in the hip hop industry.<\/p>\n<p>While Smart and Bent are prominent names throughout Regent Park and the city as a whole, Galati wanted to focus on their identities beyond the music and basketball.<\/p>\n<p>This focus includes the challenges to Bent's basketball path brought forth by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As Bent prepped for his AAU year to put his game on display for college scouts in 2020, the season was cancelled by the outbreak of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setback, Bent continues to develop his skillset and maintains hope that he can play basketball at the next level collegiately.<\/p>\n<p>Through these challenges, audiences become familar with Bent's personal relationships with his siblings, mother and coach, and his ties to Regent Park.<\/p>\n<p><em>SMOKEYSWRLD<\/em> is part of the Faces of Resistance series for the 2021 Regent Park Film Festival, running from Nov.25 to Dec.2 this year.<\/p>\n<p>More info on the festival can be <a href=\"https:\/\/rpff.ca\/\">found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Galat's other works include <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nu3ry_JkqU4&amp;ab_channel=LukeGalati\">Eastern<\/a>,<\/em> a full-length doc about the Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute, its prestigous basketball program and the school's closure in 2015. The basketball program famously produced former NBA all-star and current Toronto Raptors basketball development consultant, Jamaal Magloire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Luke Galati&#8217;s newest documentary,\u00a0SMOKEYSWRLD, follows the journey of Kymahni Bent, a highly touted basketball prospect striving for a Division 1 scholarship at a US college. Bent is a longtime resident of Toronto&#8217;s Regent Park community and speaks about his upbringing in the film, as well as coping with the murder of his brother Jahvante&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":71771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,204],"tags":[11069,4569,2989,11068],"radio":[1380],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71463"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=71463"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=71463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}