Noah Media Group is thrilled to celebrate its Emmy® Award win for Outstanding Short Documentary for ‘One-Armed Wonder: The Extraordinary Story of Jimmy Hasty’ at last night’s 45th Annual Sports Emmy® Awards at Lincoln Center, New York.

Produced with UEFA for Uefa.TV, the award was accepted in New York by director Richard Milway and Executive Producer and Noah Media Group CEO John McKenna. The film is part of a series titled Extraordinary Stories which tells captivating unknown stories from UEFA competition history that have been unearthed from the archives.

With access to Hasty’s widow, sons and former teammates, and interweaving rarely seen archive as well as reconstruction, ‘One-Armed Wonder’ paints a picture of a man who lived life to the full in the face of adversity, and highlights the impact such unjust violence can have on a family and community.

The film previously won a Sportel Award in 2023 and made waves in Ireland where it was screened at a cinema in Dundalk and on Irish TV - both RTE and Virgin. The film was directed by Richard Milway (1966: Who Stole the World Cup?, Academies: Santos) with Executive Producers from Noah Media Group, Chris Peilow and John McKenna and Phil Williams and Alex Ingham from UEFA. 

The Emmy® Award win is the culmination of a strong year for Noah Media Group following a recent BAFTA nomination for Hatton (NMG for Sky Documentaries) in the Best Single documentary category at the BAFTA TV Awards. Hatton also won.

Absolutely delighted to announce we have been nominated for a TV BAFTA for Hatton in the category of Single Documentary 🙌

It's Noah Media Group's first BAFTA nomination and we are proud of the entire team. Congrats to our fellow nominees and special thanks to SKY and Ricky Hatton.

Our team have just returned from a great few days at SXSW 2024 with our film She Looks Like Me!

Really proud to bring Jen and Dom’s stories to the general public, and what an amazing audience we had in Austin. The Q&A was great, and received a standing ovation. All the screenings were really well attended. Of course, it was great to hang out with old and new friends at the fest. We can’t wait for the next one.

Noah Media Group’s documentary, ‘Hatton,’ won Sports Documentary of the Year at the Broadcast Sport Awards (2023).

The documentary follows boxing hero Ricky Hatton, exploring his life inside and outside of the ring, with honest words from ‘The Hitman’ himself, his closest friends, family, and peers.

The Sky co-production was well-received by critics and audiences alike. The judges of the Awards described this winner as "really polished, well-produced, with great interviews and characters—a spectacular documentary.”

The documentary is currently available on Apple TV.

Hatton wins "Sports Documentary of the Year" 

Sky Documentaries and NOW confirm brand new and exclusive Sky original documentary film 'Hatton' will air at 9pm on Thursday 31 August. The ninety-minute film offers extraordinary access to boxing hero Ricky Hatton, exploring his life in and outside of the ring, with honest words from ‘The Hitman’ himself, his closest friends, family and peers.

From multi-award-winning sports documentary specialists Noah Media Group comes this definitive portrait of a unique, working-class hero and one of the world’s most beloved boxers - Ricky ‘The Hitman’ Hatton. The documentary, with incredible access to Ricky and unseen archive footage, charts his journey from the Hattersley estate near Manchester to headlining on the strip in Las Vegas is an emotional insight into a brilliant sporting hero.

Earmarked for greatness from the moment he turned professional, Ricky quickly rose to the pinnacle of his sport. Adored by the public, he was a raging force in the ring, but the eventual pain of defeat would become utterly unbearable. Triumph, and pride were replaced by depression, addiction, and shame. His courage was clear, but it hid a darkness that would overwhelm him.

Crucially, his relationships with those closest to him fell apart. A near decade estrangement from his family and split from his coach pushed Ricky to his absolute rock bottom and an attempted suicide. Raw and compelling, the documentary showcases this cautionary tale and inspirational story of a man forced to navigate a path through fragile relationships and broken dreams as he attempts to make sense of a life that appeared destined for a happy ending.

Ricky Hatton is directed by multi-award winning Dan Dewsbury and produced by Noah Media Group (14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, Finding Jack Charlton), in association with Sky Studios. NBCUniversal Global Distribution handle international sales on behalf of Sky Studios.

Hatton, a brutally honest and deeply personal documentary from Noah Media Group, to air on Sky Documentaries & NOW on 31 August

Ghost Robot and Noah Media Group are wrapping principal photography on award winning filmmaker Joshua Zeman’s upcoming documentary with the working title Checkpoint: Zoo, a film which documents the daring rescue, led by a rag-tag team of zookeepers and volunteers, who risked their lives to save thousands of animals trapped in a zoo behind enemy lines in the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Produced by Zeman and Zach Mortenson for Ghost Robot, with Ian Davies and Torquil Jones for Noah Media Group, UTA has signed on for worldwide sales and will bring the film to festivals in 2024.

Five weeks after the Invasion of Ukraine first began, EcoPark Zoo’s founder, Oleksandr Feldman, posted a desperate plea to social media — the relentless shelling had left thousands of animals trapped in their cages with little food and water, and only a few zookeepers left to care for them. Miraculously, his social media post went viral and zoos from across Ukraine and Europe were calling with offers to house the remaining animals. Within 24 hours, a group of volunteers had appeared on Feldman’s doorstep offering to help any way they could. And so, it was decided that this brave team of zookeepers and volunteers would do the impossible — they would sneak into EcoPark, under the noses of the Russian camped nearby, risking life and limb, to evacuate over 1000 animals.

Joshua Zeman and his team secured exclusive access to EcoPark, including conversations with the volunteers and zookeepers who risked their lives during the evacuation, and access to dozens of hours of video and sound recordings and thousands of photos to tell this story.  

Director Joshua Zeman stated, “Like my previous film, The Loneliest Whale, which deals with the human emotion of loneliness through the search or a whale all alone at sea, Checkpoint: Zoo addresses the human construct of war through the eyes of animals who are acutely aware of the danger and destruction, but have no context for the why of it all.  It is also more than just a film about animals — it's about the real-life heroes who are risking their lives to save them. The result is a story that touches every one of us as it explores themes of connection, and more so, interconnection.”

Joshua Zeman (Director & Exec Producer) is one of the leading voices indocumentary storytelling. His critically acclaimed film CROPSEY is considered one of the top true crime documentaries of all time. In 2017, Zeman directed THE KILLING SEASON, which was also executive produced by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney. Zeman also directed MURDER MOUNTAIN, a docu-series for Netflix that’s been called “a must-watch”. In 2020, Zeman EP’s and directed THE SONS OF SAM, which was the #1 watched show on Netflix around the world during the week it was released.  Most recently, Zeman directed THE LONELIEST WHALE, a cinematic quest to find the 52Hz Whale, whom scientists believe has spent its entire life in solitude. The film, which was executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, has been called “a modern-day Moby Dick" and was nominated for three Critics Choice Awards. 

In his 25 years of producing documentary films, Zachary Mortensen has constantly traversed and defined genres. From the pioneering exploration of electronic music in Iara Lee’s MODULATIONS (Sundance 1997) and the de finitive hip-hop retrospective of Joey Gar field’s BREATH CONTROL (Tribeca 2002) to the seminal true-crime horror documentary CROPSEY (Tribeca 2005) by Joshua Zeman, Mortensen has always sought out stories on the fringes and intersection of pop and contemporary culture. His films have taken audiences into an evangelical megachurch’s Halloween spectacle (HELL HOUSE - Toronto 2002) and literally into the tub of a water-birth at the world-renowned natural birthing center on the Farm in Tennessee (BIRTH STORY - Los Angeles 2013). Access and insight are a constant throughout all his films, and he is constantly looking for collaborators that challenge the documentary establishment and shine a light on unexpected stories. Zach is the co-founder of Ghost Robot, a New York City-based creative studio.

Ghost Robot and Noah Media Group are wrapping principal photography on award winning filmmaker Joshua Zeman’s upcoming documentary with the working title Checkpoint: Zoo

GHOST ROBOT AND NOAH MEDIA GROUP WRAP UP JOSHUA ZEMAN’S DARING UKRANIAN ESCAPE STORY 'CHECKPOINT: ZOO'

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