‘You See L.A.’ Creators, Coach Made Sure Pic Following UCLA Women’s Basketball Team Shot From The Heart – Contenders TV Documentary

“I had the incredible privilege of being mentored by John Wooden,” Close said during a panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary event, “and one of the things he taught me is, one, you’re coaching people’s hearts, but two, he used to say, ‘If it’s not about teaching, mentoring, equipping for the next 40 years of their lives, it really doesn’t mean a whole lot. ’ And so that’s the kind of program that we want to have. ” More from Deadline Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary Kicks Off Today, And That’s A Fact Deadline Launching Reality TV Summit In LA With Unscripted Stars, Buyers, Producers & Creators New AI Tool From Amazon's AWS Speeds Up Vertical Video Clip Process; Fox, NBCUniversal Among Initial Customers “I think what this documentary allows us to do is to show people that you can be courageously vulnerable,” she added.

“You can care about people’s hearts and you can compete to master your craft. ” Executive producers Kelsey Trainor and Jeff Luini, who previously collaborated on Welcome to Wrexham , envisioned the project as “a great example of how storytelling, especially around women and women’s sports, could be done in a way that was comparable to any kind of men’s sports story that you would see,” Trainor said. “It’s not necessarily, I think we say women’s sports wants in this documentary.

That’s not the point. It’s a sports story … and to Corey and the team’s credit, we were there. We were in the locker room.

We were in hard conversations. ” “It’s a human story,” said Luini. ” Sports stories are great.