NON FICTION FILM
  • Home
  • News
  • Videos
  • Galleries
    • 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
    • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
    • 2019 SXSW Film Festival
    • SXSW 2018 Gallery
    • 2019 Sundance Film Festival
    • Outfest 2018 Photo Gallery
    • Outfest 2017
    • Sundance 2018 Photos
    • 2017 LA Film Festival
    • 2017 Cannes Film Festival
    • Tribeca Film Festival 2017
    • SXSW 2017 Gallery
    • 2017 Berlin Film Festival
    • Sundance 2017 Gallery
    • 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival
    • Cannes Film Festival 2016
    • SXSW 2016 Gallery
    • Berlinale 2016 Gallery
    • Sundance 2016 Gallery
  • Filmmaker Gallery
  • About
  • Contact

'Icarus' team hosts Olympic Opening Ceremonies viewing party in LA

2/10/2018

Comments

 
Black Russian cocktail among libations offered -- nod to Oscar-nominated documentary's role in Russia's ban from Winter Games
Picture
"Icarus" director Bryan Fogel at the Olympic Opening Ceremonies viewing party at the Hollywood Athletic Club on Friday, February 9, 2018. Photo by Matt Carey
If not for the documentary Icarus, the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea might have had a different character.

Athletes from more than 90 countries marched into the stadium in Pyeongchang Friday night, including competitors from Russia, but there was no Russian flag among the many nations represented. That's because Russia is formally banned from the Games, largely as a result of Bryan Fogel's documentary. 

I was actually invited to go to the Games and I'd love to but I'm unable to with timing.

--Icarus director Bryan Fogel to Nonfictionfilm.com
Icarus, one of five films in the running for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, exposed the vast state-sponsored athletics doping program that Russia engaged in for years. The International Olympic Committee cited the documentary and other corroborating evidence in a report explaining its decision to punish Russia for the elaborate cheating scheme. Russian athletes are competing under the Olympic flag instead of their country's banner.

Fogel tells Nonfictionfilm.com the IOC's ban on Russia sounds harsher than it actually is.

"I was actually invited to go to the Games and I'd love to but I'm unable to with timing. I'll certainly be following it with greater interest this year because while Russia, technically, was banned from the Games there have been myriad loopholes within that ban that is allowing now 150 or so Russian athletes to compete neutrally," he stated. "To myself and my team [that] has been kind of a slap in the face to the overall scandal and conspiracy that was perpetrated against clean athletes and sport for the last 40 years."

Below are some pictures from the Opening Ceremonies viewing party at the Hollywood Athletic Club. All pictures by Matt Carey.
Comments

    Author

    Matthew Carey is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. His work has appeared on Deadline.com, CNN, CNN.com, TheWrap.com, NBCNews.com and in Documentary magazine.

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • News
  • Videos
  • Galleries
    • 2019 Tribeca Film Festival
    • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
    • 2019 SXSW Film Festival
    • SXSW 2018 Gallery
    • 2019 Sundance Film Festival
    • Outfest 2018 Photo Gallery
    • Outfest 2017
    • Sundance 2018 Photos
    • 2017 LA Film Festival
    • 2017 Cannes Film Festival
    • Tribeca Film Festival 2017
    • SXSW 2017 Gallery
    • 2017 Berlin Film Festival
    • Sundance 2017 Gallery
    • 2016 Los Angeles Film Festival
    • Cannes Film Festival 2016
    • SXSW 2016 Gallery
    • Berlinale 2016 Gallery
    • Sundance 2016 Gallery
  • Filmmaker Gallery
  • About
  • Contact