WORLD PREMIERE Ten years after retirement from a career as a professional athlete, Kenny Anderson finds that basketball is easy, it’s life that’s hard. Still reeling from his mother’s death, the former New York City high-school prodigy and NBA All-Star loses a cherished coaching position, sending him into a midlife crisis. Facing his personal demons […]
WORLD PREMIERE The kind of sports story even non-sports fans will love, This Was the XFL chronicles the ill-fated history of the XFL, the no-holds-barred brainchild of NBC’s Dick Ebersol and WWE’s Vince McMahon. Launched to fanfare in 2001, the extreme football league lasted only a single season, making up rules – and breaking them […]
After former New Orleans Saints defensive back Steve Gleason receives a devastating diagnosis of ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, he turns the camera on himself to provide his then-unborn son a sense of the father he may otherwise never know in this emotionally powerful portrait. Steve and his steadfast wife Michel use humor to cope […]
NYC PREMIERE Kid Yamaka is a short film from multi-Emmy-nominated director Matt Ogens, profiling the eponymous LA-area boxer (real name: Zachary Wohlman). The 14-minute film is a deeply human story, diving into Wohlman’s troubled background, his training under world-class coach Freddie Roach, and his path to personal redemption through boxing, Judaism, and sobriety. Wohlman is […]
NYC PREMIERE The Boxer is an intimate portrait of Chordale Booker, a gifted USA boxer and National Champion with a storied past. Following a court ruling that afforded Chordale a second chance at life, he vowed to make right and fight his battles in the place he knew best, the ring. Follow his tumultuous journey […]
NYC PREMIERE “We wuz robbed” is an old boxing expression. But not until the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, did people fully understood its meaning. That’s when Roy Jones Jr. thoroughly destroyed Park Si-Hun in the light heavyweight gold medal match, landing 86 punches to Park’s 32, only to watch the judges steal the […]
The sporting life. A 19-year-old Olympic fighter has the bout of his life in 86-32 (USA, 13 min., Randy Wilkins). Kid Yamaka (USA, 14 min., Matt Ogens) walks a path to personal redemption through boxing, Judaism and sobriety. A second chance allows a street-corner drug dealer to become a champion in The Boxer (USA, 15 […]
WORLD PREMIERE “The Muck” : On the eastern shore of Florida sits Palm Beach, one of the wealthiest communities in America. Just 40 miles west is one of the poorest. It’s known as ‘The Muck’. Despite the poverty and violence, ‘The Muck” has forged over 60 NFL players. Our documentary tells the story of Pahokee, […]
NYC PREMIERE Skatekeet is a documentary about Keet, a ten-year-old girl, whose skateboard skills have attracted attention in a skate world dominated by boys. Besides getting respect from her fellow skaters she also encounters lack of understanding from others. Keet rolls through a world of pre-conceived opinions on how girls should be, while carving out […]
NYC PREMIERE On April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s powerful film reveals the immediate impact of the terrorist attack on Boston as the city goes on lockdown and a manhunt ensues for the bombers, […]