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If You Like AMATEUR, Take 2 Seconds to Help Us Spread the Word (Makes a BIG Difference)

04.25.13 @ 1:20PM Tags : basketball, distribution, manchild, marketing, pr, shorts, sports

Last week I posted AMATEUR, the prequel to my forthcoming feature MANCHILD, and the response to the short has been downright amazing. Thank you to everyone who has watched it! If you haven’t seen it yet, it is embedded below, and if you have seen it, here’s how two seconds of your time can make a big difference for the project: More »

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Tapes in Underwear, Documents Down the Toilet: Guerilla Tactics and the Filming of 'The Iran Job'

10.9.12 @ 5:24PM Tags : basketball, documentary, kickstarter

This is a guest post by Till Schauder (with Sara Nodjoumi).

I’m married to an Iranian woman. She’s smart, beautiful, and tough as nails. (I may be a little biased, though not much…)

In 2007 a friend of ours – actually the fellow who married us – sent me an article about a handful of Americans who play professional basketball in Iran. At that time we were high at war with Iraq and Afghanistan and it looked like Iran – or “I-ran” – would be next on the list, just as it does again now. In the absence of diplomatic relations (we haven’t had an embassy in Tehran since 1979), I was inspired by these athletes, who arguably do more for dialogue between Iranians and Americans than any politician on either side. More »

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Seen: Steve Nash is the Most Ridiculous Man in the World

02.13.10 @ 12:00PM Tags : 50cent, basketball, nba, seen, stevenash, vitaminwater

I was thinking of doing my own parody of Dos Equis’ “The Most Interesting Man in the World” ad campaign — which I find to be clever and effective — by flipping it on its head and doing “The Most Uninteresting Man in the World.” It’d just be some couch potato doing banal tasks all day. But with the NBA All-Star festivities this weekend, I discovered Vitamin Water has created their own parody, “The Most Ridiculous Man in the World,” starring none other than two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash. More »