'No No' Gets a Yes Yes at Sundance
Arts + Labor presents a webisode from the premiere
By Monica Riese, 3:00PM, Tue. Jan. 21, 2014
No No: A Dockumentary has been on our radar for years.
The highly anticipated documentary about Dock Ellis, the Pittsburgh Pirate who pitched a no-hitter while on LSD, has been in production since 2010 – the 40th anniversary of that unbelievable game. As Mark Fagan put it in his 2012 writeup about the film:
"It's an (in)famous milestone in baseball lore, but even nonsports fans are familiar with the story from James Blagden's funny, trippy animated short "Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No," which has more than 2 million hits on YouTube."
But as editor Sam Douglas put it: "He's an exceptional person who happened to be a baseball player."
Our friends from Arts + Labor got an exclusive peek at the film's premiere last night at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Check out their interviews with the filmmakers here.
Sundance 2014 - No No A Dockumentary Premiere BTS from Arts+Labor on Vimeo.
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