Victoria film company in Paris documenting Canadian basketball bid for Olympic glory

PARIS — Filmmakers always look for built-in intrigue and drama when making a documentary. Victoria production company Banger Films, chronicling the Team Canada men’s basketball journey to and at the Paris Olympics, has certainly been given a dramatic storyline.

Canada has drawn host France with NBA rookie-of-the-year Victor Wembanyama and NBA veterans Rudy Gobert, Evan Fournier, Nicolas Batum and Bilal Coulibaly in the quarter-finals Tuesday (9 a.m. PT). That’s the way the brackets bounce as they gave Canada no breaks despite it going 3-0 and winning its group.

The film project began when Victoria earned the right to host the qualifying tournament for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, only to

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