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The inaugural season of the East Asia Super League, the startup basketball league featuring competition between clubs from across mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, is set to receive the reality TV treatment.
The groundbreaking long-form series will be directed by Korean filmmaker John H. Lee (Battle For Incheon: Operation Chromite). The recently launched Korean production outfit Studio Ignite! will produce, along with Ctrl Media, the production banner owned by NBA veteran and head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, Steve Nash, and Salty Pictures, the company established by Jonah Greenberg, former head of CAA China. Greenberg and Ctrl Media’s director Ezra Holland are credited as executive producers of the show, alongside Marc Iserlis in association with Third Culture Collective.
The producers say the series will explore the high-stakes drama on and off the court throughout the Easl’s inaugural...
The inaugural season of the East Asia Super League, the startup basketball league featuring competition between clubs from across mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, is set to receive the reality TV treatment.
The groundbreaking long-form series will be directed by Korean filmmaker John H. Lee (Battle For Incheon: Operation Chromite). The recently launched Korean production outfit Studio Ignite! will produce, along with Ctrl Media, the production banner owned by NBA veteran and head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, Steve Nash, and Salty Pictures, the company established by Jonah Greenberg, former head of CAA China. Greenberg and Ctrl Media’s director Ezra Holland are credited as executive producers of the show, alongside Marc Iserlis in association with Third Culture Collective.
The producers say the series will explore the high-stakes drama on and off the court throughout the Easl’s inaugural...
- 7/19/2022
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Into the Wind
Directed by Ezra Holland and Steve Nash
Canada/USA, 2010
At one point in the Espn Films documentary Into the Wind, one of the interviewees says that Canada rallied behind Terry Fox because Canada lacked heroes like him; “We never had a Martin Luther King, a Nelson Mandela,” she says. But it might just as easily be said that America or South Africa never had a Terry Fox, that rare person who became a legend despite fighting a losing battle against long odds. - Fox was a college student hoping for basketball stardom, when he developed cancer in his right leg. Doctors amputated the leg above the knee, but Fox did not abandon his athletic desires, and eventually he conceived of the idea to run across Canada on a specially-designed artificial leg to raise money for cancer-research charities. The film’s title refers to the fact that Fox...
Directed by Ezra Holland and Steve Nash
Canada/USA, 2010
At one point in the Espn Films documentary Into the Wind, one of the interviewees says that Canada rallied behind Terry Fox because Canada lacked heroes like him; “We never had a Martin Luther King, a Nelson Mandela,” she says. But it might just as easily be said that America or South Africa never had a Terry Fox, that rare person who became a legend despite fighting a losing battle against long odds. - Fox was a college student hoping for basketball stardom, when he developed cancer in his right leg. Doctors amputated the leg above the knee, but Fox did not abandon his athletic desires, and eventually he conceived of the idea to run across Canada on a specially-designed artificial leg to raise money for cancer-research charities. The film’s title refers to the fact that Fox...
- 4/16/2015
- by Mark Young
- SoundOnSight
Steve Nash, the newest member of the Los Angeles Lakers, is happy to be making his new home in Hollywood. The flashy point guard, who was traded to the Lakers on Wednesday after eight years with the Phoenix Suns (the deal becomes official July 11, per NBA rules), runs a production company, Meathawk, with his cousin, Ezra Holland. Their first feature, Into the Wind -- about the life of Terry Fox, an amputee who attempted to run across Canada for cancer research in 1980 -- debuted at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and aired as part of Espn’s 30 for 30
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- 7/5/2012
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We're headed towards unknown waters, sports fans; for the first time ever (?) the country will possibly be staring at its two highest profile professional sports leagues (I don't count Nascar until they start loading .50-cal machine guns on the hood) locked out. Trying to disseminate what is bullpucky and what is financial reality has little bearing on us, the consumer. However, there's been an exceptional amount of progress on the NFL front; by the end of Friday, we may have the
framework in place for an agreement. The incentive is now even greater for the NFL to beat the NBA by getting back to business, even if that means skipping most of the preseason to usher out-of-shape behemoths onto the field in an asthmatic overture of pulled groin muscles and strained hamstrings. Knock on wood, let's get this one done boys.
The hope, and perhaps the real financial bottom line,...
framework in place for an agreement. The incentive is now even greater for the NFL to beat the NBA by getting back to business, even if that means skipping most of the preseason to usher out-of-shape behemoths onto the field in an asthmatic overture of pulled groin muscles and strained hamstrings. Knock on wood, let's get this one done boys.
The hope, and perhaps the real financial bottom line,...
- 7/7/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
Filed under: Features
For the next three Sundays this month, Espn Classic will repeat episodes from their landmark documentary series '30 For 30'. The re-airing culminates with a 17-episode marathon on Nov. 28, starting at 7Am Et.
If you've missed any (or all) of this outstanding series, this is your chance to catch up.
With '30 For 30', Espn pledged to present 30 films with a unique perspective on sports. The series has brought major filmmakers to Espn airwaves (including Oscar nominee John Singleton, and Oscar winners Barbara Kopple and Barry Levinson).
The contributors also include former and current athletes. 'Bull Durham" writer/director Ron Shelton -- whose 'Jordan Rides the Bus' (about Michael Jordan's time in baseball's minors) is a '30 for 30' highlight -- once played minor league baseball himself. Phoenix Suns superstar Steve Nash, with filmmaker Ezra Holland, presents 'Into the Wind', about cancer activist Terry Fox,...
For the next three Sundays this month, Espn Classic will repeat episodes from their landmark documentary series '30 For 30'. The re-airing culminates with a 17-episode marathon on Nov. 28, starting at 7Am Et.
If you've missed any (or all) of this outstanding series, this is your chance to catch up.
With '30 For 30', Espn pledged to present 30 films with a unique perspective on sports. The series has brought major filmmakers to Espn airwaves (including Oscar nominee John Singleton, and Oscar winners Barbara Kopple and Barry Levinson).
The contributors also include former and current athletes. 'Bull Durham" writer/director Ron Shelton -- whose 'Jordan Rides the Bus' (about Michael Jordan's time in baseball's minors) is a '30 for 30' highlight -- once played minor league baseball himself. Phoenix Suns superstar Steve Nash, with filmmaker Ezra Holland, presents 'Into the Wind', about cancer activist Terry Fox,...
- 11/13/2010
- by Jane Murphy
- Aol TV.
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