New arrival will be based in New York, and work out of new Los Angeles office.
Topic Studios, whose drama The Climb premiers in official selection in Cannes later this month, has hired former HBO executive Maria Zuckerman as executive vice-president.
Zuckerman will lead Topic Studios’ overall strategy encompassing development, financing and production of features, documentaries, TV, podcasts, and digital programming.
Topic projects include Netflix sports documentary Losers from Mickey Duzyj, and John Cameron Mitchell’s podcast Anthem: Homunculus.
The company co-financed and produced best picture Oscar winner Spotlight, and its slate highlights include Leave No Trace, political documentary Dark Money,...
Topic Studios, whose drama The Climb premiers in official selection in Cannes later this month, has hired former HBO executive Maria Zuckerman as executive vice-president.
Zuckerman will lead Topic Studios’ overall strategy encompassing development, financing and production of features, documentaries, TV, podcasts, and digital programming.
Topic projects include Netflix sports documentary Losers from Mickey Duzyj, and John Cameron Mitchell’s podcast Anthem: Homunculus.
The company co-financed and produced best picture Oscar winner Spotlight, and its slate highlights include Leave No Trace, political documentary Dark Money,...
- 5/6/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries are often the ideal way to dig beneath the surface of widely-publicized events, which is what has made the genre of sports documentaries so appealing: One game, one moment, even one split-second decision can define an entire career — or an entire life. However, some of the best sports documentaries cut against the idea that a person needs to be measured against a single choice in the heat of athletic competition. “Losers” is a perfect example.
The new Netflix documentary series features in-depth conversations with individuals known primarily for their sports shortcomings. Over the course of eight episodes, the show focuses on a series of people whose failures stretched far beyond a single moment. Whether they were pilloried by a particular community or made global headlines for a series of mistakes, these people carry the label of the title of the show.
But what makes director Mickey Duzyj’s series...
The new Netflix documentary series features in-depth conversations with individuals known primarily for their sports shortcomings. Over the course of eight episodes, the show focuses on a series of people whose failures stretched far beyond a single moment. Whether they were pilloried by a particular community or made global headlines for a series of mistakes, these people carry the label of the title of the show.
But what makes director Mickey Duzyj’s series...
- 3/1/2019
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Never give up! This is one of those short film discoveries that makes you smile and feel so happy you want to grab the nearest person and tell them to watch it with you. The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere is an Espn 30 for 30 short documentary made by Mickey Duzyj profiling a Japanese racehorse named Haru Urara. This horse is special because she kept losing, she lost over 100 races in a row, and yet was turned into a national superstar. The doc explains that Haru Urara became a symbol of hope, of "never giving up", for the Japanese people during their depressing economic crisis in the 90s and 00s. She also helped save the racetrack where she was from in a small town in the south of Japan. It's a wonderful doc with some fantastic animation and great interviews. I highly recommend watching, even if you have no interest in horse racing.
- 7/27/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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