Tribeca Flashpoint: Chicago Hulks out for Sadermania
Get ready, Chicago! The first film from Flashpoint Academy Studios to premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival features an unlikely best-friendship.
Say your prayers, take your vitamins, and mark your calendars for Sadermania, Flashpoint Academy Studios’ first film to premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival! This week,CIFF released its official selections, and we’re proud to announce that this remarkable true story of fanship turned friendship is on the list.
Conceived, directed, and produced by TFA staff members Adam Gacka and Paul Matian, the film chronicles the unlikely best-friendship between Hulk Hogan and lifelong “Hulkamaniac”Chris Sader, an ordinary Polish-American kid from Chicago who has, practically since birth, followed Hogan’s every move. Several TFA students, including Andrew Fink, Michael Murrie,Mitch Koepp, Thomas Tamesis, Luke Peterson, John Mokhtarei, Justin Teichen and Jacob Gigler, filled various roles in the film’s production.
Chris’s story is surprisingly—and refreshingly—real. After all, who among us hasn’t hoped that, if we could only meet that one person we’ve always looked up to, he or she would love nothing more than to be our best friend? Sadermania is a sweet, sincere portrait of a lucky kid who got to do just that.
Say your prayers, take your vitamins, and mark your calendars for Sadermania, Flashpoint Academy Studios’ first film to premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival! This week,CIFF released its official selections, and we’re proud to announce that this remarkable true story of fanship turned friendship is on the list.
Conceived, directed, and produced by TFA staff members Adam Gacka and Paul Matian, the film chronicles the unlikely best-friendship between Hulk Hogan and lifelong “Hulkamaniac”Chris Sader, an ordinary Polish-American kid from Chicago who has, practically since birth, followed Hogan’s every move. Several TFA students, including Andrew Fink, Michael Murrie,Mitch Koepp, Thomas Tamesis, Luke Peterson, John Mokhtarei, Justin Teichen and Jacob Gigler, filled various roles in the film’s production.
Chris’s story is surprisingly—and refreshingly—real. After all, who among us hasn’t hoped that, if we could only meet that one person we’ve always looked up to, he or she would love nothing more than to be our best friend? Sadermania is a sweet, sincere portrait of a lucky kid who got to do just that.
SADERMANIA will screen during CIFF on Saturday, Oct 15, at 6:15pm (EFSADER1 – $13/$10).
Learn more about Sadermania at Sadermania.com.
