From Philly With (Brotherly) Love: ‘The Turnaround’ Set For Telluride Premiere, With The Obamas, Ben Proudfoot, Kyle Thrash Behind It

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Michelle and Barack Obama are teaming up with double Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and Kyle Thrash for The Turnaround, a short documentary that will make its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival.

The film tells a remarkable story from the sporting world that suggests Philadelphia, indeed, deserves to be called the City of Brotherly Love.

Thrash, a Philly native, shares directing duties with Proudfoot (The Last Repair Shop, The Queen of Basketball). Higher Ground, the former president and first lady’s production company, partner with Proudfoot’s Breakwater Studios, Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios (a DICK’S Sporting Goods company), and Major League Baseball to present the film, which bows on Sunday at the festival. “The Turnaround follows Jon McCann, a proud Philadelphian who struggles with his mental health.

Jon is equal parts unruly and reverent when it comes to his beloved baseball team, the Philadelphia Phillies, who he covers religiously on his YouTube channel where he is known as The Philly Captain,” notes a description of the documentary. “When the team’s big new acquisition ($300M over 11 years), Trea Turner, who had just signed one of the biggest contracts in MLB history, enters a downward spiral despite the city’s sky high hopes for him, the infamous fans turn against him, fervidly booing their own player (a time-honored Phillies tradition).