EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Nick Faldo, and Aaron Judge are among the many elite skilled athletes who’ve benefitted from working with a sports activities psychologist. Now some esports stars are catching onto the concept.
Canadian gross sales agent Syndicado has acquired worldwide rights to The Gamer, a documentary that revolves round Verneri “Bona” Junkala, a proficient 17-year-old CS:GO e-athlete whose aim is to be the very best in Finland. Bona at all times is available in second place in Counterstrike, nonetheless, till he begins working with world’s greatest esports psychologist, Mia. The movie directed by Finnish administrators Petri Luukkainen and Jesse Jokinen makes its world premiere on Sunday on the prestigious CPH:DOX pageant in Copenhagen, screening in Nordic:DOX competitors.
The periods with Mia set Junkala “on a path to self-discovery to not only become a better player, but a better person,” based on an outline of the movie. “Unexpectedly, another player and old nemesis from the past, comes to take his position in the team. The mentorship between the psychologist and Bona is in the key role, while he must figure out how to balance the conflicts, burden of pressure and his own dreams before his professional contract runs out.”
“We were interested in the tricky combination of self-reflection and performance orientation,” the administrators say of their movie. “In competitive gaming, everything is penetrated by the expectations of success and what a player is able to produce to his team and sponsors. What kind of self-value can these young gamers achieve or upkeep in this competitive and money-driven environment? Through Bona, we wanted to capture the youth’s zeitgeist here, an age of performance-driven self-help.”
The Gamer is produced by Liisa Karpo and Marianne Mäkelä for Finnish manufacturing firm napafilms in co-production with Erik Winker, Martin Roelly and Ümit Uludag for CORSO Film (Germany).
At CPH:DOX, Syndicado can be dealing with gross sales for Jesse McLean’s Dox:Award competitors entry Light Needs, in regards to the internal lifetime of houseplants, and Greta Stocklassa’s Blix not Bombs, within the operating for the F:act Award, about diplomat and UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, for which Syndicado is also government producer.
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