Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

People and Pop Culture

Filmmaker's 'Blind Luck' Lands Her A Stellar Cast In Official London 2012 Film

When British filmmaker CAROLINE ROWLAND randomly picked a group of Olympic debutants to star in the official London 2012 film, First, she "could not have hoped for a more stellar cast," according to Ashling O'Connor of the LONDON TIMES. Among the 12 young competitors chosen from 4,600 contenders were Team GB Gold Medal cyclist LAURA TROTT, Kenya Gold Medal distance runner DAVID RUDISHA, Irish Gold Medal boxer KATIE TAYLOR and South African Gold Medal swimmer CHAD LE CLOS. Rowland directed and produced the feature-length documentary film, which is released next week. Rowland: “I would like to say I had a crystal ball, but it was blind luck.” The film, which cost £750,000 ($1.2M) to make, chronicles "the ups and downs" of the 12 athletes from their homes to their first Olympics and global recognition. Shooting started only six weeks before the Games after "protracted discussions" between independent production company New Moon and the IOC. The IOC "eventually awarded a seven-year commercial distribution licence," after which the film will become the "intellectual property of the Olympic movement." Rowland found the IOC "much less controlling than she was prepared for" (LONDON TIMES, 11/14).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2012/11/15/People-and-Pop-Culture/Caroline-Rowland.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2012/11/15/People-and-Pop-Culture/Caroline-Rowland.aspx

CLOSE