Steven Ungerleider, the author, sports psychologist and co-founder of Sidewinder Films, the label behind documentaries about the USA Gymnastics scandal, the 1972 Munich Olympics and Arthur Ashe, has died. He was 73.
Ungerleider died Saturday in Healdsburg, California, after an eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer, The Foundation for Global Sports Development announced. He founded the organization in 1996 to promote “accessible, fair and abuse-free sport for youth through grants, awards and educational projects.”
Ungerleider produced HBO’s At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019), the Erin Lee Carr-directed film that focused on the sexual-abuse victims of convicted USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
“Steven always fought for what was right, no matter what, especially advocating for those who had been wronged and silenced by institutional failures,” Foundation for Global Sports Development executive board member David Ulich said in a statement.
Ungerleider was nominated for an Emmy for his research on 2016’s Munich ’72 and Beyond,...
Ungerleider died Saturday in Healdsburg, California, after an eight-month battle with pancreatic cancer, The Foundation for Global Sports Development announced. He founded the organization in 1996 to promote “accessible, fair and abuse-free sport for youth through grants, awards and educational projects.”
Ungerleider produced HBO’s At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019), the Erin Lee Carr-directed film that focused on the sexual-abuse victims of convicted USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.
“Steven always fought for what was right, no matter what, especially advocating for those who had been wronged and silenced by institutional failures,” Foundation for Global Sports Development executive board member David Ulich said in a statement.
Ungerleider was nominated for an Emmy for his research on 2016’s Munich ’72 and Beyond,...
- 3/20/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“Aquaman” star Jason Momoa and producer Peter Safran have reteamed to develop a feature biopic about Duke Kahanamoku, the legendary Hawaiian Olympic swimmer who is widely credited with popularizing surfing as a sport.
Momoa and Safran have teamed with producers Susan Miller Carlson and Eric Carlson of Carlson Company to bring Kahanamoku’s story to the screen. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, known for penning “Conviction,” a 2018 Black List selection, is at work on the script.
Kahanamoku was the subject of the “American Masters” documentary “Waterman — Duke: Ambassador of Aloha” that debuted on PBS in May and was narrated by Momoa, a fellow Hawaiian.
Kahanamoku was a five-time Olympic medalist who broke records as a champion swimmer. He busted through racial stereotypes as a native Hawaiian competing across four Olympic Games in 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1932. After his athletic career ended, he ran gas stations in Hawaii and spent nearly 30 years as sheriff of Honolulu until the early 1960s.
Momoa and Safran have teamed with producers Susan Miller Carlson and Eric Carlson of Carlson Company to bring Kahanamoku’s story to the screen. Chris Kekaniokalani Bright, known for penning “Conviction,” a 2018 Black List selection, is at work on the script.
Kahanamoku was the subject of the “American Masters” documentary “Waterman — Duke: Ambassador of Aloha” that debuted on PBS in May and was narrated by Momoa, a fellow Hawaiian.
Kahanamoku was a five-time Olympic medalist who broke records as a champion swimmer. He busted through racial stereotypes as a native Hawaiian competing across four Olympic Games in 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1932. After his athletic career ended, he ran gas stations in Hawaii and spent nearly 30 years as sheriff of Honolulu until the early 1960s.
- 8/18/2022
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
“Name some other American athlete that has statues erected to him in three different countries,” says one disciple of swimming and surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku in this enthralling American Masters profile (Jason Momoa narrates). Here are three ways the Hawaiian trailblazer made waves. Olympic Champ In 1912, Duke went from ocean wonder who’d never swum in a pool to the 100m freestyle gold medalist at the Stockholm Games. Duke defended his gold at the 1920 Olympics and earned silver in a 1924 American sweep. Father of Surfing At Healy’s invite, Duke traveled Down Under in 1914 and introduced eager Aussies to Hawaiian surfing. He continued on to New Zealand; schools, shops and post offices shut down so Kiwis could watch his demonstration. Bona Fide Hero When a fishing boat capsized off a California beach in 1925, Duke rescued eight ...
- 5/10/2022
- TV Insider
On this day (August 24th) in showbiz-related history...
1890 "Father of modern surfing" and part time movie actor Duke Kahanamoku born in Hawaii. We've written about him before. Where's his biopic?
1967 The Whisperers premieres in London. It's about an old poor woman living in solitude who is beginning to lose her grip on reality. Dame Edith Evans sterling work was instantly lauded - she won Best Actress at Berlinale and from such disparate groups as the Nyfcc, Nbr and the Golden Globes. She landed her third and final Oscar nomination in the Best Actress lineup (sadly only the winner, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner's Hepburn, was less than superb in that shortlist!). At the time Evans was the oldest Oscar nominee of all time in any acting category having just turned 80 years old. That record has since been undone but she's still the third oldest lead actress nominee after Jessica Tandy...
1890 "Father of modern surfing" and part time movie actor Duke Kahanamoku born in Hawaii. We've written about him before. Where's his biopic?
1967 The Whisperers premieres in London. It's about an old poor woman living in solitude who is beginning to lose her grip on reality. Dame Edith Evans sterling work was instantly lauded - she won Best Actress at Berlinale and from such disparate groups as the Nyfcc, Nbr and the Golden Globes. She landed her third and final Oscar nomination in the Best Actress lineup (sadly only the winner, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner's Hepburn, was less than superb in that shortlist!). At the time Evans was the oldest Oscar nominee of all time in any acting category having just turned 80 years old. That record has since been undone but she's still the third oldest lead actress nominee after Jessica Tandy...
- 8/24/2017
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Google updated its homepage today with a new Doodle in memory of Duke Kahanamoku, born in Hawaii 125 years ago on Aug. 24, 1890. Kahanamoku was the first to make surfing popular in California, New Zealand and Australia — he’s considered as the “father of modern surfing.” Google updated its logo with a surfer board, […]
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- 8/24/2015
- by Quentin Gueroult
- Uinterview
Hawaii Five-0 almost had the perfect scenario for a romantic date: a seaside locale, a shared meal, an intimate vibe ... oh, and about two dozen tourists trying to take pictures of the interlude.
On a balmy August day at the Duke Kahanamoku lagoon at Waikiki's Hilton Hawaiian Village, Daniel Dae Kim and Reiko Aylesworth were filming a date between Chin Ho Kelly and ex-fiancee Malia for Monday's episode, "Ma'em'e" (10/9c, CBS). TVGuide.com was on the set to check out Kamekona's shrimp truck and find out what's going on with cousins Chin Ho and Kono (Grace Park).
Hawaii Five-0: Could the team lose Kono?
Last season, Chin Ho kept busy working with Five-0 and clearing his own name of scandal before rejoining the Hpd. He has more than just work on his mind now, though. "You're witnessing one...
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On a balmy August day at the Duke Kahanamoku lagoon at Waikiki's Hilton Hawaiian Village, Daniel Dae Kim and Reiko Aylesworth were filming a date between Chin Ho Kelly and ex-fiancee Malia for Monday's episode, "Ma'em'e" (10/9c, CBS). TVGuide.com was on the set to check out Kamekona's shrimp truck and find out what's going on with cousins Chin Ho and Kono (Grace Park).
Hawaii Five-0: Could the team lose Kono?
Last season, Chin Ho kept busy working with Five-0 and clearing his own name of scandal before rejoining the Hpd. He has more than just work on his mind now, though. "You're witnessing one...
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- 10/17/2011
- by Hanh Nguyen
- TVGuide.com - Features
Hawaii Five-0 almost had the perfect scenario for a romantic date: a seaside locale, a shared meal, an intimate vibe ... oh, and about two dozen tourists trying to take pictures of the interlude.
On a balmy August day at the Duke Kahanamoku lagoon at Waikiki's Hilton Hawaiian Village, Daniel Dae Kim and Reiko Aylesworth were filming a date between Chin Ho Kelly and ex-fiancee Malia for Monday's episode, "Ma'em'e" (10/9c, CBS). TVGuide.com was on the set to check out Kamekona's shrimp truck and find out what's going on with cousins Chin Ho and Kono (Grace Park).
Hawaii Five-0: Could the team lose Kono?
Last season, Chin Ho kept busy working with Five-0 and clearing his own name of scandal before rejoining the Hpd. He has more than just work on his mind now, though. "You're witnessing one...
Read More >...
On a balmy August day at the Duke Kahanamoku lagoon at Waikiki's Hilton Hawaiian Village, Daniel Dae Kim and Reiko Aylesworth were filming a date between Chin Ho Kelly and ex-fiancee Malia for Monday's episode, "Ma'em'e" (10/9c, CBS). TVGuide.com was on the set to check out Kamekona's shrimp truck and find out what's going on with cousins Chin Ho and Kono (Grace Park).
Hawaii Five-0: Could the team lose Kono?
Last season, Chin Ho kept busy working with Five-0 and clearing his own name of scandal before rejoining the Hpd. He has more than just work on his mind now, though. "You're witnessing one...
Read More >...
- 10/17/2011
- by Hanh Nguyen
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Last year it was announced that Sam Worthington had been cast in a new surfing drama called Drift. It was reported at the time that the story would revolve around the rise of surfing in Australia and globally. I wasn't really sure how far back they would go to tell this story, but surfing was introduced to Australia in the year 1915 by Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku.
We have a few more details on what this film will be about. The story "set in 1972 and tells the story of the Fisher brothers as they start a new life in a remote Australian coastal town where they come up against suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a new business based on surfing, their greatest passion."
Morgan O’Neill wrote the script and will co-direct with Ben Nott. Surfings great, and I always enjoy a good...
We have a few more details on what this film will be about. The story "set in 1972 and tells the story of the Fisher brothers as they start a new life in a remote Australian coastal town where they come up against suspicious locals, killer waves and ruthless bikers as they struggle to kick-start a new business based on surfing, their greatest passion."
Morgan O’Neill wrote the script and will co-direct with Ben Nott. Surfings great, and I always enjoy a good...
- 3/16/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Sam Worthington has been cast in the lead role of a new surfing drama shooting in Perth Australia called Drift. The movie will track the rise of surfing in Australia and globally.
I love surfing! I go out and surf the waves of Southern Cal as much as I can. I am also very interested in the history of the sport, and I know a lot about it. I'm not sure how far back in history they will go but surfing was introduced to Australia in the year 1915 by Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku.
In an interview with West Australia Worthington said,
I'm a [Western Australian] boy at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really looking forward to. There's something pure and true about surfing, and there is something pure and true about this script.
I'm always up for a good surfing flick,...
I love surfing! I go out and surf the waves of Southern Cal as much as I can. I am also very interested in the history of the sport, and I know a lot about it. I'm not sure how far back in history they will go but surfing was introduced to Australia in the year 1915 by Hawaiian surfing legend Duke Kahanamoku.
In an interview with West Australia Worthington said,
I'm a [Western Australian] boy at heart and to go back there and put something back into my home town is something I am really looking forward to. There's something pure and true about surfing, and there is something pure and true about this script.
I'm always up for a good surfing flick,...
- 8/24/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
This review was written for the theatrical screening of "Surf's Up."The documentary on empire penguins was quite magnificent. The cartoon about a penguin with dancing feet proved to be a real treat, even a work of genius. Now comes a cartoon about surfing penguins. Surfing penguins? OK, yes, critters can do anything in a cartoon, but surfing penguins?
This film from Sony Pictures Animation is a cheerful and frequently amusing bit of nonsense, which certainly will provoke children into giggles. The film does not measure up to "March of the Penguins" or "Happy Feet", both Oscar-winning efforts. Nor is it trying to. Children are the film's main audience, yet enough family members will show up and be entertained that Columbia Pictures can anticipate above-average business.
While the film has limited ambitions, "Surf's Up" does take a fresh approach to cartooning by introducing a reality-TV situation in which a camera crew is documenting the exploits of its penguin hero. This would be Cody Maverick (voiced by hot young actor Shia LaBeouf), an oddity in his home of Shiverpool, Antarctica, because of his mania for surfing while the rest of the penguin colony is hard at work fishing and hatching eggs.
Indeed, his mom and older, much larger brother take pains to portray him as a layabout in interviews with the camera crew (voiced, in fact, by the film's directors, Ash Brannon and Chris Buck). Cody's inspiration is the late and legendary "Big Z" (Jeff Bridges), the Duke Kahanamoku of penguin surfing, whom he once met when Big Z came to Shiverpool. When a surf scout, shorebird Mikey Abromowitz (Mario Cantone), comes to Cody's hometown looking for talent for the 10th annual Big Z Memorial Surf-Off, Cody won't take no for an answer.
He hops aboard Mikey's favorite mode of transportation, a whale, and heads for Pen Gu island (which will remind you a lot of Oahu circa 1950). Here he meets goofy surfer dude Chicken Joe (Jon Heder), who as his name indicates is a chicken -- what, you've never heard of a surfing chicken? -- along with a broad-shouldered and bullying nemesis, Tank Evans (Diedrich Bader), and the love of his life, cute lifeguard Lani Aliikai (Zooey Deschanel).
Cody's first challenge to Tank, which surf promoter Reggie James Woods) turns into a surf-off between the two, ends with Cody wiped out so badly that he is dragged unconscious from the raging ocean by Lani. How embarrassing!
Lani takes him to recuperate in another part of the island where her beach-bum friend Geek has a hut built of old surfboards. Cody quickly realizes that Geek is none other than Big Z, hiding out from his own legend.
Predictably, Big Z trains Cody, which includes making his own surfboard, for a rematch with Tank. His lessons involve learning to have fun as much as how to maneuver among large tropical waves.
The CGI water work, inside the curl of the wave or under water after the wipeout, is extraordinary. All the surfing action is top-notch, a further example of how computer animation has advanced in the past decade or so.
The voice actors often were recorded at the same time -- unusual for an animated film -- so that the characters can ad-lib and play off one another naturally for the "documentary film crew." Bridges is a hoot as the grizzled old surfer. LaBeouf gets all the boyish exuberance out of Cody. And Deschanel is the perfect coquette as the surfer girl. Heder's Chicken Joe nearly steals the show as the fish-out-of-water chicken, while Woods hams it up as a Don King-style promoter.
SURF'S UP
Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Animation
Credits:
Directors: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Screenwriters: Don Rhymer, Ash Brannon, Chris Buck, Christopher Jenkins
Story: Christopher Jenkins, Christian Darren
Producer: Christopher Jenkins
Head of story: Jeff Ranjo
Visual effects supervisor: Rob Bredow
Production designer: Paul Lasaine
Music: Mychael Danna
Co-producer: Lydia Bottegoni
Editor: Ivan Bilancio
Cast:
Cody Maverick: Shia LaBeouf
Big Z/Geek: Jeff Bridges
Lani Aliikai: Zooey Deschanel
Chicken Joe: Jon Heder
Reggie: James Woods
Tank Evans: Diedrich Bader
Mikey Abromowitz: Mario Cantone
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
This film from Sony Pictures Animation is a cheerful and frequently amusing bit of nonsense, which certainly will provoke children into giggles. The film does not measure up to "March of the Penguins" or "Happy Feet", both Oscar-winning efforts. Nor is it trying to. Children are the film's main audience, yet enough family members will show up and be entertained that Columbia Pictures can anticipate above-average business.
While the film has limited ambitions, "Surf's Up" does take a fresh approach to cartooning by introducing a reality-TV situation in which a camera crew is documenting the exploits of its penguin hero. This would be Cody Maverick (voiced by hot young actor Shia LaBeouf), an oddity in his home of Shiverpool, Antarctica, because of his mania for surfing while the rest of the penguin colony is hard at work fishing and hatching eggs.
Indeed, his mom and older, much larger brother take pains to portray him as a layabout in interviews with the camera crew (voiced, in fact, by the film's directors, Ash Brannon and Chris Buck). Cody's inspiration is the late and legendary "Big Z" (Jeff Bridges), the Duke Kahanamoku of penguin surfing, whom he once met when Big Z came to Shiverpool. When a surf scout, shorebird Mikey Abromowitz (Mario Cantone), comes to Cody's hometown looking for talent for the 10th annual Big Z Memorial Surf-Off, Cody won't take no for an answer.
He hops aboard Mikey's favorite mode of transportation, a whale, and heads for Pen Gu island (which will remind you a lot of Oahu circa 1950). Here he meets goofy surfer dude Chicken Joe (Jon Heder), who as his name indicates is a chicken -- what, you've never heard of a surfing chicken? -- along with a broad-shouldered and bullying nemesis, Tank Evans (Diedrich Bader), and the love of his life, cute lifeguard Lani Aliikai (Zooey Deschanel).
Cody's first challenge to Tank, which surf promoter Reggie James Woods) turns into a surf-off between the two, ends with Cody wiped out so badly that he is dragged unconscious from the raging ocean by Lani. How embarrassing!
Lani takes him to recuperate in another part of the island where her beach-bum friend Geek has a hut built of old surfboards. Cody quickly realizes that Geek is none other than Big Z, hiding out from his own legend.
Predictably, Big Z trains Cody, which includes making his own surfboard, for a rematch with Tank. His lessons involve learning to have fun as much as how to maneuver among large tropical waves.
The CGI water work, inside the curl of the wave or under water after the wipeout, is extraordinary. All the surfing action is top-notch, a further example of how computer animation has advanced in the past decade or so.
The voice actors often were recorded at the same time -- unusual for an animated film -- so that the characters can ad-lib and play off one another naturally for the "documentary film crew." Bridges is a hoot as the grizzled old surfer. LaBeouf gets all the boyish exuberance out of Cody. And Deschanel is the perfect coquette as the surfer girl. Heder's Chicken Joe nearly steals the show as the fish-out-of-water chicken, while Woods hams it up as a Don King-style promoter.
SURF'S UP
Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Animation
Credits:
Directors: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck
Screenwriters: Don Rhymer, Ash Brannon, Chris Buck, Christopher Jenkins
Story: Christopher Jenkins, Christian Darren
Producer: Christopher Jenkins
Head of story: Jeff Ranjo
Visual effects supervisor: Rob Bredow
Production designer: Paul Lasaine
Music: Mychael Danna
Co-producer: Lydia Bottegoni
Editor: Ivan Bilancio
Cast:
Cody Maverick: Shia LaBeouf
Big Z/Geek: Jeff Bridges
Lani Aliikai: Zooey Deschanel
Chicken Joe: Jon Heder
Reggie: James Woods
Tank Evans: Diedrich Bader
Mikey Abromowitz: Mario Cantone
Running time -- 86 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
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