A season under a pandemic. Zalgiris premieres the New Reality documentary 2

As the pandemic-laden basketball season is coming to an end, Zalgiris Kaunas basketball club sets out to bring the fans an inside look at what the year has been like with a more than hour-long documentary film New Reality.

The movie produced by the Zalgiris TV creative team will bring you close to the lives of the green-and-whites from the moment Lithuania took on the first wave of the pandemic up until the current day situation when the players finally received vaccines and the stands slowly started filling up with fans.

“The movie will let you see everything that the fans couldn’t witness during the season – what the team went through and how they applied themselves to the conditions of this new reality. Everything started with the wish to capture individual moments from this unusual season, but with so much footage, we came up with the idea to create a documentary,” – noted Zalgiris’ audiovisual project manager Dominykas Taraskevicius.

Zalgiris previously shared a snippet of the movie, with club’s director Paulius Motiejunas talking about the disappointment of an incomplete EuroLeague season, and a possible bubble solution. In the latest trailer of the movie, we see Zalgiris players getting vaccinated and Marius Grigonis running us through his thought process.

“If I’m the only one getting the vaccine, it changes nothing for me. I would perhaps avoid the heavy form of the disease. But until we have a lot of people vaccinated, we won’t be able to get back to normal life, living like we have been for the last year. I’m getting the jab with the idea that perhaps it’ll be an example for someone else. That’s the thought process.”

In the documentary film New Reality, Zalgiris players, head coach Martin Schiller, club director Paulius Motiejunas, team staff and Sarunas Jasikevicius, who ended the first pandemic season as Zalgiris’ head coach, shared their stories about the reality of a basketball season in a pandemic.

Fans are invited to watch the teaser for the film, and join the Zalgiris Insider platform to watch the full movie, which is already available to the MVP plan subscribers.