'Zoo Story

Jim Courier is the executive producer of a documentary about junior tennis that’s being shot this year (through September), and the Kalamazoo Gazette got him to talk a little about it during the junior nationals last week. We’ve been aware of this project at TW since its inception, but Jim specifically asked us not to write a great deal about it until the film was done and we happily obliged. If you want to know more about it, here's an even more extensive feature on the flick. My hope is that with Jim in such a prominent role, the documentary will take a really balanced look at the lives of young pros, rather than try to manipulate all the information to fit some pat, preconceived idea (junior tennis players are the product of evil tennis parents! Junior players have no real lives!) about the sport.

Wouldn’t it be great for the game if one or more of those high-profile film festivals acknowledged the documentary?