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Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Filming Roger Federer’s final days as a tennis professional

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Sports News, Sports

4.5757 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Episode 405 of the Sports Media Podcast with Richard Deitsch features Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia, the co-directors of “Federer: Twelve Final Days,” which follows Roger Federer through the final 12 days of his professional career. The documentary will stream on Prime Video beginning June 20. In this podcast, Kapadia and Sabia discuss how the project came to be; Sabia starting out the project as doing a home video for Federer’s friends and family; why Federer provided such intimate access; how Kapadia sees Federer in relation to his other doc subjects; getting access to Rafa Nadal, Novak Dojokovic and other top players; how to capture the elegance of Federer on the court and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more.

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welcome to the Sports Media Podcast.

0:40.8

I'm your host Richard Deich, my producer Patrick Antonetti.

0:44.0

Two guests this week.

0:46.2

I'm looking forward to talking to these two gentlemen because one, they're extremely talented

0:51.2

and two, they were given or granted some access into one

0:56.9

of the world's great athletes at a really important time in his journey. My guests are

1:03.1

Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia. They are the co-directors of Federer 12 final days, which follows

1:10.1

Roger Federer through the final 12 days of his professional

1:13.2

career. This documentary will stream on prime video beginning June 20th. For those of you who are

1:19.9

into sports documentaries, Asif's name is probably familiar. He was on his podcast a while ago

1:26.6

after he directed Maradana's doc, which was just incredible. He was on his podcast a while ago after he directed

1:27.6

Maradonna's doc, which was just incredible. Also, he did Senna and Amy Whitehouse. And Joe,

1:34.2

for those of you who are tied to the fashion world, of which I am not, he created the 73

1:39.8

questions franchise for Vogue. So if you're on Vogue's website and you check out the seven three questions, it's really

1:46.2

amazing.

1:47.2

I mean, Joe has interviewed some of the most, the world's most famous people.

1:50.1

So these are two very accomplished dudes and I appreciate them coming on.

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