EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Teicher and Alexi Pappas, the multi-hyphenate duo whose Olympic Dreams, starring Nick Kroll and Pappas, premiered at this years SXSW film festival, have signed with APA.
Olympic Dreams was shot on location at the 2018 Winter Olympics and tells the story of an athlete (played by Pappas) and a volunteer (played by Kroll) who share a special but limited time together in the Olympic Village. Co-written by Pappas, Teicher, and Kroll, and directed by Teicher (who also was a one-person crew), Olympic Dreams is the first narrative feature film ever shot in a real-life Olympic Village.
Teicher and Pappass 2016 film Trackdown, starring Pappas, Rachel Dratch and Andy Buckley, was developed through the Sundance Lab, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival, and released by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Orion Pictures.
Teichers first film, the 2014 award-winning Tall as the Baobab Tree, was inspired by true stories from Teichers Student Academy Award-nominated short documentary, This Is Us, and screened at over 50 festivals worldwide. Teicher has also written and directed short-form content for The New York Times, Kodak, Runners World and others, including the Speed Goggles series. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was named one of Filmmaker Magazines “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2013.
Pappas, also a Dartmouth graduate, is currently writing a book of essays, Bravey, with Random House. Pappas short-form writing has been published by The New York Times and she has been profiled by Rolling Stone, The New York Times, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and NPRs All Things Considered. She was also featured on the October 2016 cover of the 50th Anniversary issue of Runners World Magazine with Kevin Hart. In addition to her acting and writing credits, Pappas is an OlyRead More – Source
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