Ep.016 Athlete Story PodcastSports Documentary AFTER THE GAME – interview with filmmaker April Abeyta about her upcoming movieDo you love a good sports documentary? AFTER THE GAME is an upcoming sports documentary following a coach and two athletes on a basketball team from the late 1990’s and then catching up today to see how sports has influenced their mindset and who they are today. In this episode you’ll meet the filmmaker herself, April Abeyta. I’d also like to use this opportunity to  send you to the AFTER THE GAME crowdfunding campaign hereAfter The Game is a basketball documentary where we follow a few real-life female athletes who played basketball on the same team in college back when the WNBA had only just launched.April Abeyta actually played on that team herself, so she had access to capture not only the game action but also the all the emotions, and the atmosphere and life around the game.The theme of the movie is very core to the Athlete Story community because it revolves around the AFTER The Game part of sports and how the lessons from sports can be used and repurposed in life after sports. IN the movie, we catch up with the women today in situations where they each discover how their background in sports actually helps them tackle life’s new challenges.I’m so excited for you to meet a real filmmaker of this upcoming sports documentary ! So let’s welcome April Abeyta for a chat about her movie : AFTER THE GAME

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Anja: If you love sports documentaries stay tuned because today on Athlete Story we’ll take a closer look at one of the upcoming sports movies. It’s called After The Game and we’ll have a chat with the filmmaker herself, April Abeyta. This is Athlete Story your show if you want to keep a connection to your athletic identity and other athletes while pursuing your new mission in life.I’m your host Anja Bolbjerg, former world top 10 skier in mobile skiing and free ride skiing. Now, pretty far into life after sports. Join me and other former athletes here and Athlete Story for resources to help you put your former sports career to work for you today. Here at Athlete Story we know that some people have an MBA to lean on you, you have your sports career. Subscribe now and get notified for every new episode.All right, then let’s get started. After The Game is a basketball documentary, where we follow a few real life female athletes who played basketball on the same team in college, back when the WNBA had only just launched. Now, the filmmaker, April Abeyta actually played on that team herself. She had access to capture not only the game action, but also all the behind the scenes, the atmosphere, the emotions, and the whole life around the game.Women’s basketball was not really media type back then. For sure, nobody walked around with cameras like we do today, so we can look forward to some pretty exceptional footage in the movie, I think. I guess she must have carried around big camera and caught it on tapes. Anyways, the theme of the movie is very core to the Athlete Story community because it revolves around that after the game part of sports and how the lessons from sports can be used and repurposed in life after sports.In the movie, we will actually catch up with the women today, in situations where they each discover how their background in sports is actually helping them tackle life’s new challenges. Let’s move on to the interview. I’ll make sure to ask April to give some personal examples as well about how playing sports has influenced her own personality and lifestyle an...