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Filmmaker interview: Director Kelyn Ikegami and The Streak
The crowd-pleasing formula of the "underdog sports drama" is woven into the fabric of film history.
The 1987 Salt Lake Trappers celebrate Former Trapper Frank Colston in 2022 The crowd-pleasing formula of the "underdog sports drama" is woven into the fabric of film history. When aspiring filmmaker Kelyn Ikegami learned as a student at Brigham Young University that a professional baseball record for consecutive wins was set in 1987 by the rookie-league Salt Lake Trappers, it would have been easy for him to lean into the story of a ragtag group of undervalued young men doing the improbable.
But he envisioned a different kind of story as he fashioned the documentary that would become The Streak…
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