Evan Rosenfeld

Evan Rosenfeld is a film producer born in Miami, Florida.

Evan got his start at Miami based documentary studio Rakontur and is now producing projects for Mandalay Sports Media, a sports entertainment company owned by filmmaker Mike Tollin and Peter Guber.

He started his work in film on the 2006 cult-classic documentary Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia Pictures) and was an associate producer on the sequel, Cocaine Cowboys 2 (Magnolia Pictures / 2008).

Evan was nominated for a Sports Emmy Award for his work on The U, a 2009 ESPN Films "30 for 30" project that premiered to record breaking ratings.[1]

In October 2012, Broke, a documentary Evan produced, premiered on ESPN to kickoff their second "30 for 30" season. Broke looks at the intersection of money and sports in the last 20 years, and the recent epidemic of big stars losing it all. Broke premiered to 2.53 million viewers, becoming the highest rated film in the "30 for 30" series,[2] besting a previous record set by The U.

Also in 2012, Evan was the Executive Producer of the Sundance Film Festival selected short film Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke starring Luther "Uncle Luke" Campbell. The film received 5 (of 5) stars from Film Threat[3] and was one of Indiewire's 10 must see short films from this year's festival.[4] In 2014 it was named one of the "Twenty-five must-see short films from over a century of cinema."[5]

In 2013, Evan was the senior producer of an NBA and CBS documentary Summer Dreams, a two-hour special that follows the players, personalities and behind-the-scenes drama at the NBA Summer League. The special premiered on March 15 on CBS in prime time.

In 2014, Evan is producing an HBO documentary about basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Evan is currently producing and directing a feature length documentary that chronicles the introduction of American football to South Asia and the start of the first professional league, the EFLI. The Elite Football League of India (EFLI) is the first professional American football league in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Founded in late 2011, the EFLI was started to create new opportunities for athletes in the region. The league consists of eight teams, five located in various cities across India, two in Sri Lanka, and one from Pakistan.

His other projects include Dawg Fight, a brutal exposé on underground backyard MMA fighting in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods.

Maxim Magazine profiled Dawg Fight in a 6 page feature.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "'The U' sets docu record at ESPN". Record. Variety. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on November 9, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Bell, Mark. "Review of "Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke"". Film Review. Film Threat. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  4. ↑ "The 10 Shorts You Must See at Sundance This Year". Must See. IndieWire. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  5. ↑ Bell, Mark. "The Essential Shorts". Film Article. Fandor. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  6. ↑ Rothbart, Davy. "MMA Star Dada 5000 Talks About Knocking Out His Opponents". MMA. Maxim. Retrieved 2016-04-28.

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