{"id":8125,"date":"2022-04-08T21:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T21:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/?p=8125"},"modified":"2025-01-09T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T01:18:45","slug":"7-year-old-basketball-prodigy-to-be-subject-of-new-documentary-it-was-written-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/7-year-old-basketball-prodigy-to-be-subject-of-new-documentary-it-was-written-2\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Year-Old Basketball Prodigy To Be Subject Of New Documentary, &#8216;It Was Written&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/580x400-SG-PR-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8126\" width=\"868\" height=\"599\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/580x400-SG-PR-1-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/580x400-SG-PR-1-2-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Roberto Cruz &#8211; Director &amp; Exec Producer, Sosa Cruz &#8211; Star,  and Alonge Hawes &#8211; Exec Producer<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sosa Cruz, the seven year old basketball sensation who went viral two years ago after her prodigious ball handling skills lit up social media, is to be the subject of an upcoming feature documentary.&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Directed by Roberto \u2018Sosa\u2019 Cruz, the documentary, titled \u2018It Was Written\u2019, chronicles Sosa\u2019s rise through the amateur basketball circuit in her hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. At the age of five, under the tutelage of her father, Roberto \u2018Big Sosa\u2019 Cruz, Sosa first caught the sporting world\u2019s attention when she became the first female member of the Decatur Blazers, an AAU youth club for which she was named league MVP for the 2019 season. From there young Sosa honed her skills under trainer\/coach Brandon Bailey, releasing a series of dribbling tutorials on social media which caught the attention of conglomerate ESPN, who featured her videos on their official website. In June of 2020 Sosa was a guest on The Steve Harvey Show, where she gave a live demonstration of her dribbling skills and was praised by WNBA star Te\u2019a Cooper and NBA Superstar Steph Curry.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018It Was Written\u2019 will be executive produced by Roberto \u2018Sosa\u2019 Cruz, Sarah Cruz, and Alonge Hawes (under his A Million Stories One Pen Productions imprint). Joshua Dennard and Asante Watkins serve as producers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u2018It Was Written\u2019 is currently on track to be released sometime in the second quarter of 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-Was-Written-Poster-2-copy-728x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8144 lazyload\" width=\"518\" height=\"728\" title=\"\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-Was-Written-Poster-2-copy-728x1024.png 728w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-Was-Written-Poster-2-copy-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-Was-Written-Poster-2-copy-768x1081.png 768w, https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/It-Was-Written-Poster-2-copy.png 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 518px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 518\/728;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcement that Jaro Media had inked multihyphenate Alonge Hawes to a series development deal, the entertainment platform has set his new series, titled \u2018Silver &#038; Gold\u2019 for a release in Fall 2022.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,176,1304],"tags":[1275,31,1285,1283,1286,1282,1287,51],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","category-news","category-core","tag-alonge-hawes","tag-featured","tag-it-was-written","tag-jaro-tv","tag-roberto-cruz","tag-silver-and-gold-series","tag-sosa-cruz","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}