About ESPN Films
Launched in March 2008, ESPN Films presents quality scripted and documentary film projects for television and theatrical release. Documentaries include, among others, the critically acclaimed and Peabody Award-winning Black Magic (March 2008), the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection The Zen of Bobby V (May 2008), the Sundance and Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selection Kicking It (September 2008), The Greatest Game Ever Played (December 2008), the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival selections Kobe Doin’ Work (May 2009) and The Lost Son of Havana (August 2009). Motion picture projects already in development include the untitled Jackie Robinson/Branch Rickey story in collaboration with Wildwood Enterprises and Baldwin/Cohen Productions in which Robert Redford will portray Rickey, and the Louis Mulkey story, about a fallen firefighter and high school basketball coach whose team accomplishes extraordinary things in his memory. In October 2009, ESPN Films launched a major initiative with “30 for 30,” a celebration of the last three decades of sports timed with ESPN’s 30th anniversary, that will televise 30 one-hour documentaries on 30 different sports topics from fall 2009 through the end of 2010.
