Deep Dish: Documentary On '08 Cubs Begins Production
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Documentary To Examine Cubs'
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A documentary on the ’08 Cubs with the working title “We Believe” has begun production, according to Paul Sullivan of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Producer and director John Scheinfeld, whose most recent documentary was “The U.S. vs. John Lennon," approached Cubs management last year "to gauge interest in a project about the franchise and its relationship to Chicago.” Scheinfeld: “We’ll have a little bit of the history of the Cubs, and of Chicago, but mostly it’s: ‘How does this thing come together, and what is this tapestry all about?’” Scheinfeld added that the film will go “beyond the basics and delve deeply into the psyches of the city and its famously inept franchise.” Sullivan notes the documentary “will not be made ‘observational’ style." Also, the possibility of the film crew “becoming a distraction is minute because it won’t be around every day,” as Scheinfeld will interview Cubs manager Lou Piniella and several players during Spring Training, the All-Star break and the end of the season. Scheinfeld “hopes to show the film at the Sundance Film Festival next winter,” and it is tentatively scheduled for release in the spring or summer of '09. The team will not have a final say over editing (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 3/12). Scheinfeld plans to interview politicians, historians, former Cubs, famous Chicagoans and fans to "give them an insight into what’s special with Chicago and the team.” Scheinfeld: “What we’re doing is a film exploring the love affair between the great city, Chicago, and its ball team, the Cubs -- what makes Chicago unique, the city, and what makes the people of Chicago unique and why they have supported this team so passionately for so long” (MLB.com, 3/11).
SE HABLA ESPANOL? Cubs Chair Crane Kenney said the team is “working with a Spanish baseball network and Univision to try and get launched here -- probably by the All-Star Game -- a schedule of games in Spanish, which is something we’ve been wanting to do.” The Cubs to date have not made a deal with a Spanish-language station (CHICAGOTRIBUNE.com, 3/9).
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