quiz bowl documentary

I plan on spending quite a bit of time next year doing a documentary
on everything quiz bowl.  I would like to follow a few teams
throughout the year (come film question writing, practice,
tournaments, late night question reading at Denny's and the like),
interviewing team members and just kind of being a fly on the wall,
trying to capture the subculture that is quiz bowl.

My vision is to have the documentary look forward to the national
tournaments like acf, trash and quite a bit on naqt.  As time and
money  permit, I would like to follow perhaps a few levels of teams

 - teams that have a legit chance of winning naqt nats
 - teams that are up and coming
 - teams that are just starting out
 - teams that have strong trash skills

If teams are very good at both quiz bowl and trash all the better.  I
plan to start filming in the fall, 

It has been a few years since I competed and I likely don't know too
many people still on the circuit these days.  I competed for several
years for byu, am rather a tall fellow, ran a few years of perpetual
motion tournaments at byu, now work as a principle engineer and have
hopes of making great documentaries.

I am hoping to be rather unobstrusive in my filming.  I hope to start
filming in the fall, but if there are teams or tournaments this summer
that are willing to participate I will start sooner.  Willing as a
team means letting me come film some practices, film an outside
interview or two, maybe walking me through some question writing, and
letting me film you at tournaments.  Willing as a tournament means
allowing me to film games, and perhaps filming some behind the scenes
tournament action.

I think quiz bowl has a fascinating subculture, with oh so many
interesting and brilliant people, that must have interesting stories
to tell.  I guess I am looking for teams and tournaments that would be
willing to let me into their lives a bit.  Since this will likely be
all self-funded, floors to crash on and perhaps rides from and to the
airport may also be appreciated.  Guess I am envisioning hoop dreams
meets spellbound meet espn's the season.  My goal is to make something
good enough to get shown at sundance and other like festivals.

Also, if you're interested in helping with actually making the
documentary, please let me know.  Lighting and sound help would be
much appreciated

Right now I am thinking strcitly college, but if there are interested
high school teams in say the provo/orem area, I would reconsider.

Working title for the project is Quiz Bowl Smart.

I currently have a Canon GL1 and plan on purchasing a Panasonic
AG-DVX100A to help with the project.

Thanks
Earl

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