Tonight Director Daniel Herrera and myself were guests on the Amateur Football Weekly Radio show hosted by Mark Trueblood. Mark is a former football player and amateur football team owner and has ventured into a new phase in his life and this radio show has been a huge success this first season. Mark focuses on the semi-pro football world, the makers and shakers of the game and also the top teams in the State of Florida. I know Mark from when I co-ran the Florida Stingrays with Jay Lawrence last season. Mark was the co-owner of the Southern Amateur Football Association which the Stingrays were apart of. Mark and I have built a good relationship since our days of running the organizations and when he heard about our film, he was excited about having us on to talk about our project.
In the interview Daniel gave a great perspective of how he used his other project "Immokalee USA", which is still showing on the Documentary channel, to help mold the many changes that took place in the migrant worker camps in Immokalee and probably all over this country. Daniel also touched on the many aspects as to how our film can be a catapult to educate the many people who probably do not have any knowledge of game and life of semi-pro football.
When it was my turn to speak, Mark gave me a great question, "How did you get involved in this project and what will it do for this level of football?", well my first points were that when Daniel first brought the project to my attention, it wasn't anything that I was looking for and I was mostly focusing on contributing to the sports blogs that I had been given the opportunity to write in. So initially the project didn't intrigue me, but when the new football season was about to roll around, Daniel approached me again and I had a different point of view. Since I had some knowledge of the game while running the Stingrays last season, I had an inside look into what these players face on and off the field. The journeys that each player has taken and where are they trying to get back to or even go. So after really researching the story and realizing that no one has ever told the story the way Daniel wanted to present it, well it was a no brainer, it was a story that I felt had to be told and I would be honored to be apart of it.
I feel that once we are done with our film, our story will be one that many people will finally see the true lives of these players and many more people even players or former players will be able to relate to the journey. I am excited about the film and very anxious to finish it, but I know we have a lot of work to do before we can get to that point, but I feel confident that when we are ready to put our stamp of approval on the film, anyone that watches it after that, will be very pleased with the results. You never know it may even change a few lives along the way.
Thank you to Mark Trueblood for believing in our journey of producing this film and want to give us the opportunity to share about it on his show. Mark is a true class act and we are grateful we had this opportunity.
You can hear our interview by following the link below.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/afdnetwork/2013/03/14/amateur-football-weekly--season-1-episode-8
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