Dave McNary Film ReporterOlympic Channel has started production on a documentary on gold medalist skier Picabo Street, directed by Lindsey Vonn and Frank Marshall, Variety has learned exclusively.Street won the gold in the Super-G at the 1998 Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.
She also won the silver medal in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics. The film, slated for release in 2022, will explore Street’s childhood, her difficult road to the gold medal, rise to fame and enduring legacy.The project will be Vonn’s first film project via her new production company Après Productions.
Vonn, who the downhill gold medal in 2010, co-founded Après Productions with her partner and longtime friend, Claire Brown, to create content that will tell.
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