Brett Rapkin - Producer/Director
BRETT RAPKIN is an award-winning writer, producer, and director with a unique perspective on the worlds of sports and entertainment.
HOLY LAND HARDBALL, his most recent independent feature-length documentary, chronicled a Boston bakery owner’s dream to create a pro baseball league from scratch in the Middle East. The film received rave critical reviews from Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and The Boston Globe, among others.
Among Rapkin's many other producing credits are two A&E Biographies, Reverse of the Curse of the Bambino for HBO Sports, Formula One: The Fast and the Famous for CBS Sports, and Baseball's Golden Age, an Emmy Nominated thirteen-episode series for Fox Sports narrated by Alec Baldwin. Other clients have included NBC Olympics and HBO Real Sports.
Josh Dixon - Producer
SPACEMAN is also Josh Dixon’s first feature documentary, the product of a journey that started five years ago. After reading an article about him in Sports Illustrated, Dixon contacted Bill “Spaceman" Lee and proposed bringing a film crew along on Lee’s next barnstorming visit to Cuba. Lee accepted and shortly after, Josh met a fellow baseball enthusiast in Brett Rapkin, who took immediate interest in the idea. Along with Rapkin, Dixon has spent the last four years bringing his dream to fruition.
Dixon got his start at CAPPY PRODUCTIONS, working with legendary Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan and later on NBA commercials for TNT SPORTS. With the extensive skills and experience gained from producing SPACEMAN from the ground up, he plans to continue his career in film and television production. He currently resides in Atlanta where he is developing several documentary and television concepts.