Freestyle

2010, 86 mins
Director: Kolton Lee
Starring: Lucy Konadu, Colin Salmon, Alfie Allen, Arinze Kene

Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Ondene is beautiful, talented, and will study law at Oxford, if her domineering mother, Hyacinth, has anything to do with it. When she falls for Leon - a charming and charismatic freestyle basketball player, whose rough council estate background is a world away from Ondene’s posh private school - he teaches her how to freestyle and persuades her to enter a local competition. Leon dreams of going to university, and the £15,000 prize money will be his passport to a new life. When Hyacinth finds out about Ondene and Leon she is determined to split them up. With the freestyle finals looming - not to mention her A-level exams - Ondene has to make some tough decisions about her family, her future and the man she loves.