Sports doc talk: ESPN’s ’30 for 30′

When realscreen last spoke to ESPN Films exec director Connor Schell, the '30 for 30' series, featuring 30 sports films in celebration of ESPN's 30th anniversary, was just beginning to bring directors on board. A year later, '30 for 30' is in full force, with Peter Berg's Kings Ransom, Barry Levinson's And the Band Played On and Mike Tollin's Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL having already aired. We talk to Schell about the response to the ambitious project and how directors from Albert Maysles to Ice Cube came on board.

October 26, 2009

When realscreen last spoke to ESPN Films exec director Connor Schell, the '30 for 30' series, featuring 30 sports films in celebration of ESPN's 30th anniversary, was just beginning to bring directors on board. A year later, '30 for 30' is in full force, with Peter Berg's Kings Ransom, Barry Levinson's And the Band Played On and Mike Tollin's Small Potatoes: Who Killed the USFL having already aired. We talk to Schell about the response to the ambitious project and how directors from Albert Maysles to Ice Cube came on board.