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Like many sports fanatics, director Jean-Christophe Rosé counts athletes among the heroes of his youth. The difference between Rosé and his soccer-loving brethren, however, is that he gets the enviable task of pouring over often unseen images of his idols; Rosé has built a reputation for constructing docs with a heavy reliance on archival footage. 'I spend months of production with people whom I never knew in flesh and bone,' he says.

June 1, 2006

Like many sports fanatics, director Jean-Christophe Rosé counts athletes among the heroes of his youth. The difference between Rosé and his soccer-loving brethren, however, is that he gets the enviable task of pouring over often unseen images of his idols; Rosé has built a reputation for constructing docs with a heavy reliance on archival footage. 'I spend months of production with people whom I never knew in flesh and bone,' he says.