One press pass to a Bulls game in 1995 turned into a lifetime keepsake, and twenty-five years later a father sits his kids down to explain exactly why in Meeting Michael.
What is Meeting Michael about?
Adam Kontras was a young fan with a brand-new video camera the day he talked his way into a Chicago Bulls game with a press credential, and he never stopped rolling. Meeting Michael frames that footage as a story told forward to his own children, who grow up hearing about the day their father crossed paths with Michael Jordan and turned an ordinary afternoon into a memory worth keeping on tape. Rather than building toward a single dramatic reveal, the documentary lingers in the texture of the encounter itself and the decades of retelling that followed, treating home-movie footage as a kind of time capsule. It is less a basketball film than a document of how a brief, unrepeatable moment gets carried forward inside a family.
About the cast
Michael Jordan appears as the subject of the encounter at the heart of the film, with director Adam Kontras narrating alongside his children Cameron Kontras and Vienna Kontras, who receive the story as the film's present-day audience.
Context & significance
Directed by Adam Kontras, Meeting Michael is a 2020 American documentary built almost entirely from personal archive footage shot in 1995, giving it the intimate, unpolished feel of a home movie rather than a conventional sports profile. Its closest company is the small genre of fan-perspective documentaries that use one ordinary person's brush with fame as a lens on memory and family storytelling rather than as a portrait of the famous person themselves. At 75 minutes, it stays close to its original footage and its narrator rather than expanding into broader sports history.
Watching Meeting Michael on Ktime
Meeting Michael is available to stream on K-Time, where the film's page can be read without signing in. Watching the film itself requires a free K-Time account, part of a Farsi-first streaming experience built for the Iranian diaspora.