The Business of Amateurs
My good friend Bobby DeMars played football for USC, and he felt compelled to make a documentary that holds the NCAA accountable for how it treats student athletes. When we set out to make this film, the concussion crisis was in its earliest days. We documented the problems with the NCAA while also offering some solutions. Before the release of the film, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver used clips from it. After the movie was released, we screened selections of the film for Congress before the NIL vote, and we are very proud to be a part of history. This movie was a true labor of love, and I got the opportunity to wear so many hats: working on the Kickstarter campaign, producing, shooting, editing the feature and the trailer, and then making Blu-rays, including the design of the sleeve and disc art.