Sam Lobel
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About
Sam migrated from Texas to New York by way of Iowa where he picked up a degree in unemployment (A.K.A.
Theatre) at Grinnell College. He initially worked production on independent films, but hunger pangs and a near
stint with scurvy drove him to work on larger studio films. Sam soon divided his time between Assistant
Directing independent films and working Locations on studio films for directors like Sydney Lumet and James L. Brooks. He produced Love Thy Neighbor, featuring Roy Scheider and Scott Wolf, while finishing his law degree at Cardozo School of Law. He was an associate producer on Sorry, Haters, starring Robin Wright Penn, and Corn, starring Jena Malone. In the world of television Sam has produced and/or consulted for numerous domestic and international networks, including: ABC, MTV-Networks, Court TV, TNT-Russia, and Warner Brothers Television's Telepictures. He was the lead US producer for 75 episodes of Russia's top rated prime-time series Golod for TNT.
Sam's legal studies focus on intellectual property, free-expression rights, and international human rights. Samhas lectured at the Dallas Bar Association's Sports and Entertainment Law Section and taught acting for theNew York Foundation for the Arts.
They're Playing Basketball
It's not whether you win or lose; it's how you play the game, but who says you have to play the game the way everyone else does? An experiment in equality inspires an unconventional coach and a reclusive math professor to revolutionize the game of basketball through egalitarianism and algorithms. This experiment becomes known as "The System", and it is an unyielding attack of mathematics against conventional sports wisdom - a frenzied game of ordered chaos that transforms a rag-tag team of geeks and freaks into conference champions. Who needs starters when you have statistics?