Michelle and Barack Obama are teaming up with double Oscar winner and Kyle Thrash for The Turnaround, a brief documentary that can make its world premiere on the Telluride Film Festival.
The movie tells a outstanding story from the sporting world that means Philadelphia, certainly, deserves to be known as the Metropolis of Brotherly Love. Thrash, a Philly native, shares directing duties with Proudfoot (The Final Restore Store, The Queen of Basketball). Higher Ground, the previous president and first girl’s manufacturing firm, accomplice with Proudfoot’s Breakwater Studios, Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios (a DICK’S Sporting Items firm), and Main League Baseball to current the movie, which bows on Sunday on the pageant.
Trea Turner’s title goes up within the Phillies’ locker room.
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“The Turnaround follows Jon McCann, a proud Philadelphian who struggles together with his psychological well being. Jon is equal components unruly and reverent with regards to his beloved baseball staff, the Philadelphia Phillies, who he covers religiously on his YouTube channel the place he is named The Philly Captain,” notes an outline of the documentary. “When the staff’s massive new acquisition ($300M over 11 years), Trea Turner, who had simply signed one of many greatest contracts in MLB historical past, enters a downward spiral regardless of the town’s sky excessive hopes for him, the notorious followers flip towards him, fervidly booing their very own participant (a time-honored Phillies custom). Jon, who’s from the Bridesburg neighborhood of Philadelphia and intimately is aware of the methods out and in of despair from his psychological well being crises, has a opposite impulse – don’t boo, give Trea a standing ovation. His suggestion goes viral, inspiring a surprising 42,000 particular person ovation that might change the trajectory of Trea, the Phillies, and perhaps even Philadelphia, without end.”
Proudfoot produces, alongside Nicholas Ruff (The Mad Whale) and Josh Rosenberg (The Final Restore Store). Government producers embrace Increased Floor’s Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Vinnie Malhotra and Ethan Lewis; Proudfoot, Thrash and Jake Bloch for Breakwater Studios; Rebecca Covington and Mark Rooks for Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios, and Nick Trotta for MLB Studios.
Trea Turner runs the bottom paths in a sport towards the Kansas Metropolis Royals at Kauffman Stadium on August 24, 2024 in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri.
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“Having grown up within the Philadelphia space and being a lifelong Phillies fan myself, I’m in awe of how brilliantly Kyle and Ben have captured the guts and soul of the town,” stated Vinnie Malhotra, president of Increased Floor. “With such a singular and infrequently seen perspective right into a story that can go down in baseball historical past, The Turnaround will take you thru a spread of feelings and delves into the emotional core of psychological well being of each our beloved gamers and the legions of followers who rally on a regular basis to champion them. Increased Floor is so proud to accomplice with Breakwater Studios, and to be part of this stunning, touching, and memorable movie.”
In a press release, Thrash and Proudfoot stated, “Jon’s is an American story for our time. All of us have a alternative of how we wish to strategy the world round us and all its challenges. Do you boo? Or do you give all of the love you may give? Jon’s reply impressed us to make this movie.”
They add, “As filmmakers, we’re past honored to accomplice with President and Mrs. Obama and Increased Floor to deliver this vital and well timed story to audiences in all places, and we’re extremely grateful to premiere this movie for the primary time at Telluride Movie Competition.”
Kris Bowers (L) and Ben Proudfoot on the Telluride Movie Competition in Colorado in 2023.
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Proudfoot got here to Telluride final yr to debut The Final Restore Store, which he directed with Kris Bowers. The brief documentary went on to win the Oscar earlier this yr, the second of Proudfoot’s profession. In 2022 he received his first Academy Award, for the brief documentary The Queen of Basketball. Proudfoot and Bowers earned an Oscar nomination in 2021 for his or her nonfiction brief A Concerto Is a Dialog.
Increased Floor, which has a cope with Netflix, produced the Oscar-winning documentary function American Manufacturing facility, in addition to the Oscar-nominated doc function Crip Camp. Malhotra joined Increased Floor as president final yr after profitable stints at Showtime and CNN Movies.
The Turnaround was edited by Dillon M. Hayes and photographed by David Bolen; Ari Balouzian composed the unique rating.
