Hoosierland - The film

03/24/2026

Hoosierland-The Film. Please help me share this incredible true story with the world. Thank you! I appreciate you!

03/23/2026

Please visit www.HOOSIERLAND.film for more information. Thank you!

This is a story about my dad and me playing basketball in a small town in Indiana. 🙌🏀🙌

12/20/2025

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Our dad, Denny Lutz. Mid 1950’s

Charlestown Pirates Basketball
Charlestown High School - Indiana
Charlestown, Indiana

NC State University
NC State Basketball (Dad played under Coach Case.)

Hoosierland - The film (Justen Overlander-writer/director)

Legal: Thomas Varnum, Brooks Pierce

10/23/2025

My narrative film has a direct connection to Coach Marvin Wood who inspired the film HOOSIERS. His brother, John Wood, coached our dad at Charlestown High School in the mid 1950’s.

City of Charlestown, Indiana
Charlestown Pirates Basketball
Charlestown - A Small Town Basketball Story
Charlestown Pirate Pride Sports Broadcasting
WPMQ Charlestown
Courier Journal
The Scott Clark Washington County Herald Newspapers and The Outlook Guide

NC State University
NC State Basketball
NC State Athletics



Dad played under Coach Case at NCSU.

Justin Taylor, David Mason (NBA trainer), Drew Hanlen (best selling author and #1 basketball skills trainer in the world), and Sam Limon (1st museum visitor from Santa Barbara, California) and Travis Rohrig (MES principal).

Drew spoke to the school staff and basketball teams. They also visited the Hoosiers Gym in Knightstown.

Drew said the gym at Knightstown was great but the museum was unbelievable. They all loved it, and WE were thrilled that they took the time to slip into the museum while they were in town!

06/28/2025

This is a story about our dad, Denny Lutz. He inspired so many in our small town of Charlestown, Indiana.

I invite you to follow Charlestown - A Small Town Basketball Story as well for the documentary portion of my basketball story of growing up in a small town, where basketball is a religion all on its own.

Logline: In the winter of 1981, a girls basketball team from Charlestown, Indiana enters a tournament as the underdog and overcomes a tragedy to compete for ...

05/31/2025

From the early 1930’s, until the early 1980’s, three generations of the Lutz (Loots) family, played basketball at Charlestown High School.

Charlestown - A Small Town Basketball Story
City of Charlestown, Indiana

04/07/2025

One of my favorite newspaper photos from the early 1980’s….Indiana High School Basketball.

Our student cheering section was amazing.

Charlestown - A Small Town Basketball Story
City of Charlestown, Indiana

03/18/2025

My Grandfather Lutz, is one of the Padres who left the gym. (Such a fun little article.) I have lots of photos that tell more of this epic win.

Visit www.Hoosierland.film more info.

Charlestown beat Jeffersonville! (Click on photo to read entire article.)

I love this article…about THREE FATHERS…and THREE PADRES who had to leave, including our Grandfather Lutz.

I have more pictures to share of Coach John Wood’s epic win over Jeffersonville. I think this was the year Charlestown was ranked #10 in the STATE of INDIANA.

www.Hoosierland.film
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