Undefeated, the heart-warming story of an inner-city high school, a group of kids who bettered themselves through football, and the volunteers who made it all possible, won the Oscar for best documentary at the 2012 Academy Awards. Now, one year later, the film is finally coming to Blu-ray and DVD so everyone can see the story of Coach Bill Courtney’s final season at Manassas high school and the success that team and its players experienced.
I recently had a chance to talk to Coach Courtney in anticipation of the film’s Blu-ray release. He talked about his current relationship with the players from the team, how the film developed from a small documentary about one player, and his advice to others volunteering with underprivileged kids.
Check it the interview below.
We Got This Covered: You’re no longer coaching at Manassas. Do you miss being there?
Bill Courtney: Yeah I miss it every day.
I recently had a chance to talk to Coach Courtney in anticipation of the film’s Blu-ray release. He talked about his current relationship with the players from the team, how the film developed from a small documentary about one player, and his advice to others volunteering with underprivileged kids.
Check it the interview below.
We Got This Covered: You’re no longer coaching at Manassas. Do you miss being there?
Bill Courtney: Yeah I miss it every day.
- 2/19/2013
- by Alex Lowe
- We Got This Covered
New clip from the Undefeated football documentary on the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season. Helmed and edited by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, the Weinstein Co-distributed documentary opens on February 10th and features Coach Bill Courtney, Montrail “Money”, Chavis, O.C. and Coach Mike Ray. Thanks to Belief.net, we have a new exclusive movie clip from the film produced by Rich Middlemas, Dan Lindsay, Seth Gordon, Ed Cunningham and Glen Zipper. Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand.
- 1/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clip from the Undefeated football documentary on the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season. Helmed and edited by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, the Weinstein Co-distributed documentary opens on February 10th and features Coach Bill Courtney, Montrail “Money”, Chavis, O.C. and Coach Mike Ray. Thanks to Belief.net, we have a new exclusive movie clip from the film produced by Rich Middlemas, Dan Lindsay, Seth Gordon, Ed Cunningham and Glen Zipper. Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand.
- 1/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
New clip from the Undefeated football documentary on the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season. Helmed and edited by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, the Weinstein Co-distributed documentary opens on February 10th and features Coach Bill Courtney, Montrail “Money”, Chavis, O.C. and Coach Mike Ray. Thanks to Belief.net, we have a new exclusive movie clip from the film produced by Rich Middlemas, Dan Lindsay, Seth Gordon, Ed Cunningham and Glen Zipper. Set in the inner-city of Memphis, Undefeated chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but that all changed in the spring of 2004 when Bill Courtney, a former high school football coach turned lumber salesman, volunteered to lend a hand.
- 1/14/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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