Kristen Lappas

Production

Kristen Lappas

Known for

Production

Credits

8 titles

Kristen Lappas is a director and producer with Words + Pictures. Lappas has twice won Emmys for her short sports documentaries (Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible and A Mountain to Climb) and has also had her work featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, and honored by AFI Docs, the NAMIC Vision Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and more. Most recently, Lappas directed a 30 for 30 multi-part documentary called “Dream On,” which is currently available on ESPN+ and Hulu. The project was nominated for an IDA award and Lappas won in the “Best Non-Fiction Show Director” category at the Women’s Image Awards for the series.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Moment poster
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From early pioneers to today’s sellout run, trace the 50-year rise of women’s hoops to coach Dawn Staley and her champion South Carolina Gamecocks.

The Moment

2026

Be Water poster
6.8

In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong to complete four iconic films. Charting his struggles between two worlds, this portrait explores questions of identity and representation through the use of rare archival footage, interviews with loved ones and Bruce’s own writings.

Be Water

2020

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey poster
7.2

A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world.

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey

2024

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey poster
7.2

A documentary that chronicles the extraordinary odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world.

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey

2024

Al Davis vs. The NFL poster
5.4

The maverick machinations of Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders owner Al Davis and his many quarrels with the National Football League.

Al Davis vs. The NFL

2021

Dream On poster
6.0

The story of the indomitable 1996 USA Women's Olympic basketball team, their grueling journey to success, and their influence in forming the WNBA.

Dream On

2022

Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible poster
1.0

As the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women epidemic affects tribal communities, a group of Blackfeet women tackle the threat head-on by practicing and training in self-defense.

Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible

2020

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The story of the basketball court at the Taguig Tenement in the Philippines, a dilapidated, seven-story concrete building used as a housing project for thousands of Filipinos in one of the poorest areas of Manila. The government is currently trying to evacuate the structure, deeming it unfit for living, but the residents have refused to leave, mainly because of the basketball court at the center of the property.

Saving the Tenement

2020