Tribeca Digital Studios and The Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation are again teaming up with director Judd Ehrlich for another youth-sports focused documentary.
The new project is untitled and will tell the story of the adversity faced by the Salmon River High School girls’ lacrosse team in the very traditional Native American Mohawk Nation territory of Akwesasne, which straddles the border between New York and Canada and is also the birthplace of lacrosse.
The announcement comes on the heels of a Sports Emmy win for Outstanding Sports Documentary for We Could Be King, about the merging of two rival football teams due to budget cuts.
“We partnered with Judd and Tribeca Digital Studios on We Could Be King to create public awareness around the impact of funding cuts in youth sports,” said Lauren Hobart, director of The Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation and svp and chief marketing office of Dick’s Sporting Goods. “To continue...
The new project is untitled and will tell the story of the adversity faced by the Salmon River High School girls’ lacrosse team in the very traditional Native American Mohawk Nation territory of Akwesasne, which straddles the border between New York and Canada and is also the birthplace of lacrosse.
The announcement comes on the heels of a Sports Emmy win for Outstanding Sports Documentary for We Could Be King, about the merging of two rival football teams due to budget cuts.
“We partnered with Judd and Tribeca Digital Studios on We Could Be King to create public awareness around the impact of funding cuts in youth sports,” said Lauren Hobart, director of The Dick’s Sporting Goods Foundation and svp and chief marketing office of Dick’s Sporting Goods. “To continue...
- 5/6/2015
- ScreenDaily
From the man who ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days, to the Indian boy who had run 48 marathons by the age of four, documentary-makers across the globe have uncovered tales of extraordinary endurance
Even when it comes to the simple act of running, truth is stranger than fiction. After last week's rundown of 10 of the best fiction films, today we explore the documentary category, which reveals an array of extraordinary treks, exhilarating tales and examples of dogged endurance. Determined documentarians across the globe have uncovered a 97-year-old mountain runner, cancer survivors, an Indian child prodigy and a host of others as they trot, stagger and sprint through the streets of New York, the mountains of Ethiopia and the hot sands of the Sahara.
Here are 10 to seek out.
Run For Your Life
The story of how Jewish immigrant and eccentric showman Fred Lebow took the New York Marathon from a...
Even when it comes to the simple act of running, truth is stranger than fiction. After last week's rundown of 10 of the best fiction films, today we explore the documentary category, which reveals an array of extraordinary treks, exhilarating tales and examples of dogged endurance. Determined documentarians across the globe have uncovered a 97-year-old mountain runner, cancer survivors, an Indian child prodigy and a host of others as they trot, stagger and sprint through the streets of New York, the mountains of Ethiopia and the hot sands of the Sahara.
Here are 10 to seek out.
Run For Your Life
The story of how Jewish immigrant and eccentric showman Fred Lebow took the New York Marathon from a...
- 3/1/2013
- by Adam Dewar
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Affleck’s Argo tells the true-life tale of a CIA agent who posed as the producer of a science fiction epic to rescue six Americans trapped in Iran in 1979. Now, another filmmaker wants to tell you a different part the story — but he needs your help to finish it.
For six years, Judd Ehrlich has been working on a documentary called Science Fiction Land, and the Emmy-nominated filmmaker just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to complete the project. The non-fiction flick takes its title from a proposed theme park to be built on the success of a sci-fi blockbuster,...
For six years, Judd Ehrlich has been working on a documentary called Science Fiction Land, and the Emmy-nominated filmmaker just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to complete the project. The non-fiction flick takes its title from a proposed theme park to be built on the success of a sci-fi blockbuster,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW - Inside Movies
Just because you aren't running the NYC Marathon doesn't mean you can't be a part of the action. On November 6, the day before this year's Ing New York City Marathon, Thirteen will premiere Judd Ehrlich's acclaimed documentary Run For Your Life, a film chronicling the life and mission of Fred Lebow, legendary founder of the NYC Marathon. Run For Your Life premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, and is the only documentary on a recent Runner's World list of the top five films of all time. The Emmy-nominated Ehrlich first became interested in telling Lebow's story through a friendship with the runner's nephew, Moshe Katz. "Moshe would tell me stories about his uncle that I had never heard on news reports. As a New Yorker, Fred's story spoke to me. I grew up here, and I remember how he transformed the city each year putting on the marathon with...
- 11/2/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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